This may be more exciting to some of you than others.
Access to LIFE's Photo Archive -- over 10 million images in total -- will soon be available on a new hosted image service from Google, Time Inc. Ninety-seven percent of the photographs have never been seen by the public. The collection contains some of the most iconic images of the 20th century, including works from great photojournalists Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, and W. Eugene Smith.
These images can be found when conducting a search on Google.com or on Google Image Search. Users can also search through the LIFE Collection directly by visiting http://images.google.com/hosted/life.
The LIFE Photo Archive featured on Google will be among the largest professional photography collections on the Web and one of the largest scanning projects ever undertaken. Millions of images have been scanned and made available on Google Image Search today with all 10 million images to be available in the coming months.
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This is a pretty amazing find. For any of us who use appropriation in any form. These come to us around the same time as Jake's post about the Smithsonian putting their collection online as well and the European Library doing the same (http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/index.html). Copyright restrictions seem to be pretty lax to the point of nonexistent in some instances.
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