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Rachel Hulin

Dune Flight, 2011

In honor of the first birthday of LightBox, TIME photo editors and LightBox staff offer recommendations of posts worth revisiting. Check back here throughout the day and on LightBox for more. See more here.

“The post I recommend is The Flying Baby by photographer Rachel Hulin,” says Associate Photo Editor Marie Tobias. “The images are magical and fun, and I admire the mind that can come up with this concept. It makes me want to live in a world where babies can indeed fly.”

Platon—The New Yorker

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. 

In honor of the first birthday of LightBox, TIME photo editors and LightBox staff offer recommendations of posts worth revisiting. Check back here throughout the day and on LightBox for more. See more here.

Associate Photo Editor Neil Harris recommends The Craziest Guy in the Room: A Portrait of Gaddafi by Platon: ”Platon’s description of shooting Gadafi was riveting and chilling when I first read it, but it’s almost more so now with the perspective of the past year’s events.”

Yola Monakhov

Grandfather bathes grandson in Hudson River at a beach near Troy, NY. 2010.

In honor of the first birthday of LightBox, TIME photo editors and LightBox staff offer recommendations of posts worth revisiting. Check back here throughout the day and on LightBox for more. See more here.

Senior Photo Editor Natalie Matutschovsky recommends Yola Monakhov’s Empire State: “This post is complete with intimate portraits and luscious still lives. It offers a poetic and contemplative view of the Hudson River and the life that surrounds it.”

Courtesy Peter Funch and V1 Gallery

SMOKING SMOKERS, 2006

In honor of the first birthday of LightBox, TIME photo editors and LightBox staff offer recommendations of posts worth revisiting. Check back here throughout the day and on LightBox for more. See more here.

TIME.com deputy photo editor Nick McClelland recommends Composite Characters: Peter Funch’s FIctionalized New York: ”No matter how many times I look at these pictures, they still bring a smile to my face!”

Oswaldo Rivas / Reuters

A monkey rides on the back of a bull during a bullfighting event at the festival of El Senor de Esquipulas at Tipitapa, some 16 miles (26 km) north of Managua, on Jan. 16, 2011.

In honor of the first birthday of LightBox, TIME photo editors and LightBox staff offer recommendations of posts worth revisiting. Check back here throughout the day and on LightBox for more. See more here.

Yumi Goto recommends TIME Picks the Most Surprising Photos of 2011: “This post was really fun and highlights Phil Bicker’s talent as a photo editor. He has a way of rummaging through thousands of photographs and connecting the dots and turning them into a fun yet thought-provoking gallery.”

Christopher Morris—VII for TIME

Hundreds of Gaddafi supporters gathered at a cemetery in Tripoli, March 24, 2011. Half of the more than 30 coffins were empty.

In honor of the first birthday of LightBox, TIME photo editors and LightBox staff offer recommendations of posts worth revisiting. Check back here throughout the day and on LightBox for more. See more here.

International Picture Editor Patrick Witty recommends Theater of War: Photographs by Christopher Morris: “The magnitude of the pictures, told through Chris’ brilliant eye, has been amplified since the fall of the Gaddafi regime.”

© Weegee. Courtesy International Center of Photography/Getty Images

The Stars Look Down,  ca. 1951

In honor of the first birthday of LightBox, TIME photo editors and LightBox staff offer recommendations of posts worth revisiting. Check back here throughout the day and on LightBox for more. See more here.

Verticals Photo Editor Alex Ho recommends Weegee’s Naked Hollywood: “Weegee photographs always make me think my life’s a little bit underwhelming—every image he’s made is magical, mythical, and memorable—Naked Hollywood is no exception.”

Happy Birthday, LightBox!

Our editors have recommended posts from the past year that are worth revisiting. Check those out here, and visit this page throughout the day for more. 

Thanks for making our first year a good one!

Don Hunstein—Sony Music Archive

Johnny Cash, October 1959. 

To celebrate the anniversary of his birth on Feb. 26, photographs of the county-music master from the Sony Music Archive. See more here.

Martha Holmes / TIME & LIFE Pictures

Jackson Pollock and his wife, the artist Lee Krasner, in their kitchen in 1949.

In honor of the 100th anniversary of Pollock’s birth, TIME presents a gallery of the artist’s life. See more here.

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