A liquid crystal display includes a liquid crystal cell which includes a back substrate, a front substrate facing the back substrate, and a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the back substrate and the front substrate, wherein the front substrate is to be located between a viewer and the back substrate, a front polarizer which faces the front substrate, and an outer retardation member which faces the front substrate with the front polarizer interposed therebetween and converts linearly polarized light from the front polarizer into circularly or elliptically polarized light.