All of Life Magazine's Photographs Now on Google

[shadowfox]

Thanks Bill! I know it's going to be something of substance if you bother to pass it on 🙂

 

[ferider]

Thanks a lot, Bill !

 

[Tuolumne]

It's free for personal and research uses. If you want to get copyright you have to go through Time Inc.

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.

/T

 

[wlewisiii]

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

 

[Ron (Netherlands)]

Nice, anyway they where impressed by German lenses:
http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=%22source:life%22.&imgurl=f3a043a3e32c1d93

 

[nico]

This is the direct link: http://images.google.com/hosted/life ......

stright into my favourites folder ... thanks for tip, and thanks Bill for sharing...

 

[bmattock]

http://images.google.com/hosted/lif...ev=/images?q=leica+source:life&hl=en&safe=off

 

[dll927]

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.

 

[bmattock]

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.

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]

Are there any pictures of camera bags in the archive?

 

[bmattock]

Are there any pictures of camera bags in the archive?

Real photographers didn't need camera bags.

http://images.google.com/hosted/lif...ges?q=photographer+source:life&hl=en&safe=off

http://images.google.com/hosted/lif...rce:life&start=21&ndsp=21&hl=en&safe=off&sa=N

http://images.google.com/hosted/lif...photographers+source:life&hl=en&safe=off&sa=G

 

[Andrew Sowerby]

That first picture is great. Thanks Bill.

 

[p.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

 

[raydm6]

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/

 

[Franko]

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]

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

 

[raid]

This is the direct link:

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

Only 20% of the library is online so far.

They will also make all the Zapruder footage of the JFK assassination available.

Thanks. This is awesome.

 

[p.giannakis]

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

Wow, what an opportunity!

 

[Anthony Harvey]

What a treasure! And meeting the great man himself! Fantastic! Many thanks for showing this.

 

[Vince Lupo]

What a treasure! And meeting the great man himself! Fantastic! Many thanks for showing this.

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.