He set an age limit for his subjects of at least 100 years old. Langer's photo series features side-by-side portraits of his subjects as a young adult and as a centenarian. Visit Insider's ...

It’s been said that old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a person. But is it even more unexpected when it happens to a pig, or a horse, or a turkey? A 40-year-old ...

When LIFE set out to do a four-part series on aging in America in 1959, the magazine’s agenda was abundantly clear. “The problem of old age,” the introduction read, “has never been so vast ...

I included a hand­ful of portraits of elderly dogs in Allowed to Grow Old to exemplify this point and to raise questions about why we pamper some animals and slaughter others.

As the world’s most celebrated portrait exhibition arrives in Wales, Julie Richards considers the different inspirations the artists draw on LEONARDO’S Mona Lisa, John Singer Sargeant’s ...

There is something very special about old photos, a reminder that the past isn’t just the contents of your history books, but was populated by very real people. While we might tend to think of ...