[FAC] Life Magazine Photos online

[Cynthia Cooper]

A Very Sort List ­ a fabulous daily blog, posted today information about how
Life Magazine is digitizing and making their images available:

LIFE magazine, which helped define the last American century but foundered
badly in this one, had one of the richest image banks in the world ‹ and
until recently, 97 percent of those images had never seen the light of day.
Now Google is digitizing all of LIFE¹s photographs and using them to seed
its Image Search engine: It¹s a fifth of the way there, and already the
results are astonishing.

You¹ll see Abraham Lincoln at Antietam, Nixon at the Great Wall of China,
and portraits of Rasputin, T. S. Eliot, Gandhi, and Frank Lloyd Wright. The
archive includes photo essays: Dorothea Lange¹s Depression-era snapshots,
Margaret Bourke-White¹s photos of Buchenwald, and Larry Burrows¹s
nine-years-in-the-making Vietnam series. Google plans to post the remaining
images in 2009, giving this most deserving archive the afterlife it richly
deserves. 

http://images.google.com/hosted/life

Cynthia Cooper
Executive Director
Fresno Coalition for Arts, Science & History
1401 Fulton Street, S-904, Fresno, CA 93721
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