Google made deal with Life magazine = awesome pics
Google Inc. made a deal with Life Magazine to host an online photo gallery that will feature millions of images from Life magazine’s archives that have never been seen by the public before. http://images.google.com/hosted/life is now hosting over 2 million images stretching back to 1750. Google is still in the process of scanning in the 10 million pictures from Life’s archives. Life has said that more than 95 percent of its photo archive has never been publicly viewed or published in the magazine.
“This effort to bring offline images online was inspired by our mission to organize all the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” Google software engineer Paco Galanes wrote on Google’s blog.
Life’s archive contains images of nearly every memorable moment in modern history, including notable names like Joe DiMaggio, John F. Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Charles Lindbergh, and world- changing events like the war in Vietnam, the World’s Fair and the 1930s oil boom. The archive also includes the famed Zapruder film of President Kennedy’s assassination, which may be Life’s most iconic photo, and the image of an American sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square on Aug. 14, 1945.
