Happy 80th Birthday, Nina Simone: Photographs by Alfred Wertheimer
On what would have been Nina Simone’s 80th birthday, LightBox celebrates her life and her legacy with a series of Alfred Wertheimer’s magnificent, intimate portraits of the star.
On what would have been Nina Simone’s 80th birthday, LightBox celebrates her life and her legacy with a series of Alfred Wertheimer’s magnificent, intimate portraits of the star.
On what would have been his 70th birthday, LightBox pays tribute to the guitar wizard through photos made by another iconoclastic creative force, the rock and roll photographer Jim Marshall.
In honor of Paul McCartney’s 70th birthday on June 18, LightBox culled various photography archives to feature 70 iconic images of the Beatle—one for each year of his life.
In the past year, LightBox has published well over 500 posts—an average of ten a week. In honor of LightBox’s first anniversary, TIME’s photo editors reflect on a year of great photography and recommend a few posts worth revisiting.
To celebrate the anniversary of his birth on Feb. 26, here are photographs of the county-music master from the Sony Music Archive.