Media News - Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Life magazine photo collection goes online
One of the biggest photo collections in the world that ranges from the
1880s through to the seminal moments of the 20th century and on into the
present day was made available to the public online Tuesday. The bulk of
the archive is from Life magazine, the premier platform for
photojournalists in the 20th century. About 10m images will eventually
be available, from Marilyn Monroe and JFK to Barack Obama and Hillary
Clinton. About 97 percent of the pictures have never been seen before.
Google announced Tuesday it had done a deal with Life to put their
pictures online. Also available is work from other archives, much of it
collected by the former Time publisher Henry Luce. About 20 percent of
the collection went online Tuesday. Dawn Bridges, a spokeswoman for
TimeInc, said that the archives in their entirety would be available in
the first quarter of next year. She said it would not just be
historical. Life magazine is defunct but lives on on the internet as
Life.com. Millions of images have been scanned and made available on
Google Image Search. (The Guardian)
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