Google and Life Magazine
Computer World
Google to archive 10 million Life Magazine photos
By Heather Havenstein
Google Inc. today said it plans to archive as many as 10 million photos from Life magazine's archives dating back to the 1750s - many which have never been published before.
Google Tuesday announced that it will add the images from Life photographers to its Google Image Search pages. Only a small percentage of the images - including newly digitized images from photos and etchings - have even been published, Google said in a blog post. The rest have been "sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints," Google said... Read More
Guardian.co.uk
Google makes Life magazine
photo archives available to the public
By Ewen MacAskill
One of the biggest photo collections in the world that ranges from the 1750s through to the seminal moments of the 20th century and on into the present day was made available to the public online from today.
The bulk of the archive is from Life magazine, the premier platform for photojournalists in the 20th century.
About 10m images will be available, from Marilyn Monroe and JFK to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. About 97% of the pictures have never been seen before. Read More
Click here to check out the photographs. - RL