LIFE photo archive


The Parisians, Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt

Google announced the LIFE photo archive yesterday, a collection of images photographed by LIFE Magazine photographers and newly digitized by Google. The collection which has been added to Google’s Image Search consists of approximately 10 million photos dating back to the 1750’s, of which about 20% has been digitized so far with the rest expected to be added over the next few months.

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2 Responses to “LIFE photo archive”

  1. Jeff Burak Says:
    November 20th, 2008 at 9:42 am

    We are really excited to expose the entire archive to the public and allow people to use the images for personal/non-commercial use.

    If anyone needs to license rights for other usages they can contact myself or our agent, Getty Images.

    Enjoy the archive.

  2. Martyn Brown Says:
    November 20th, 2008 at 3:54 pm

    As a historian who finds photograpic archives of considerable value in bringing the past to life I congratulate the initiators of this development. Sitting here in New Zealand I am now one of many throughout the world who has access to a valuable resource. Again, well done.

    Sincerely

    Martyn
    Adjunct Research Associate Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington
    Wellington, New Zealand

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