shadowfox
Darkroom printing lives
Thanks Bill! I know it's going to be something of substance if you bother to pass it on 
ferider
Veteran
Thanks a lot, Bill !
Tuolumne
Veteran
But there's nothing keeping me from downloading them for my own personal use and printing them. They do seem to be trying to sell onsie-twosie to individual end users. I am just now nicely augmenting my collection of Marilyn Monroe prints.
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wlewisiii
Guest
Thank you, Bill. I'm always glad to see a thread started by you and this is one of the better pieces of news in a very long time for anyone who values photography.
William
William
Ron (Netherlands)
Well-known
Nice, anyway they where impressed by German lenses:
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=%22source:life%22.&imgurl=f3a043a3e32c1d93
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=%22source:life%22.&imgurl=f3a043a3e32c1d93
nico
Well-known
stright into my favourites folder ... thanks for tip, and thanks Bill for sharing...
bmattock
Veteran
dll927
Well-known
There must be about umpteen versions of collections of LIFE photos. I just saw another one at a store the other day.
Ten million? Well, what's taking a little time worth? A large percentage of those pictures would be just a bit dated, assuming we're talking about the LIFE that went out of existence in about 1972. But having all the pictures in one place at least gives a person a chance to cull through them and see what might be worth downloading --assuming that is what is intended. But if somebody is going to line their pockets with so much per print (or download), I'd kiss them off.
Ten million? Well, what's taking a little time worth? A large percentage of those pictures would be just a bit dated, assuming we're talking about the LIFE that went out of existence in about 1972. But having all the pictures in one place at least gives a person a chance to cull through them and see what might be worth downloading --assuming that is what is intended. But if somebody is going to line their pockets with so much per print (or download), I'd kiss them off.
bmattock
Veteran
Ye Gods. I have no idea how to respond to such a poorly-conceived statement. You object to being given something of value for free? Wow.
Andrew Sowerby
Well-known
Are there any pictures of camera bags in the archive?
bmattock
Veteran
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Andrew Sowerby
Well-known
That first picture is great. Thanks Bill.
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
I don't know how I missed this thread but just a heads up for those like me who haven't seen it.
All Life magazine issues to be found here:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...issues_r&cad=1&atm_aiy=1935#all_issues_anchor
All Life magazine issues to be found here:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id...issues_r&cad=1&atm_aiy=1935#all_issues_anchor
raydm6
Yay! Cameras! 🙈🙉🙊┌( ಠ_ಠ)┘ [◉"]
The destruction of my Mom's s village (Minturno, Italy) was featured in several stories in Life.
She survived (obviously) and is still living peacefully at 95. The stories she told us...
http://southlazioitaly.com/Minturno/world-war-ii-minturno/
She survived (obviously) and is still living peacefully at 95. The stories she told us...
http://southlazioitaly.com/Minturno/world-war-ii-minturno/
Franko
Established
Before the nightly news and CNN, Life was the visual news source for many of us. My elementary school had several subscriptions and I wore them out. The arrival of new editions was always a good day. Eisenstaedt's "Witness to Our Time" was my motivator into a lifetime of photography.
Vince Lupo
Whatever
I've had this copy of Life (Issue #2) since November 1990, and was fortunate to have met and interviewed Alfred Eisenstaedt then in his 28th floor office at the Time Life building in NYC. He was kind enough to sign the cover (his first for Life Magazine) for me.
Life1a by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Life7 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Life1a by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
Life7 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
raid
Dad Photographer
Thanks. This is awesome.
p.giannakis
Pan Giannakis
Wow, what an opportunity!
Anthony Harvey
Well-known
What a treasure! And meeting the great man himself! Fantastic! Many thanks for showing this.
Vince Lupo
Whatever
The man himself in his tiny 28th floor office, December 1990. He's looking through this very magazine in the photo.
Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1990 by Vince Lupo, on Flickr
It was an assignment in first year undergrad to do a profile of a photographer, and I chose him. I called him on the phone (amazing how you could do that back then!) and we arranged the date and time. I flew down to NYC from Toronto and spent about an hour with him. He was 92 at the time and was called the 'retainer' of Life Magazine. Many times he had answered the same questions about his life in interview after interview, I decided that I wanted something a bit different. So I asked him about Robert Mapplethorpe for example (the Cincinnati incident happened around that time) and different things that I hadn't read in other interviews of him. I think some of the questions kinda threw him off (not the Mapplethorpe questions though), but I think if I had to do it again today, I'd maybe approach the interview a bit differently.