pretty awesomeThe photographs that have been published on LIFE magazine are pretty awesome. Since its birth in 1883 names like Robert Capa (you may remember the LIFE darkroom incident, where Capa's photographs from Normandy were ruined) to Dorothea Lange have filled the pages of LIFE. There's another thing that I find pretty awesome, and that is Google. Google is probably the most widely used search engine on the web, so much so that it has almost gained its place in our language as a verb.
"Whats the capitol of Uruguay?".."I don't know, google it." (It's Montevideo, thanks Google.).
And now these two awesome things have joined together to create something pretty awesome; a digital archive of LIFE photographs on Google's image search engine. According to the LIFE archive page, you can search from millions of LIFE photographs from the 1750s up until today. Flipping through millions of photographs may sound like a daunting task, but of course Google's search engine makes it pretty easy to find a photograph. The LIFE archive page organizes the photographs based on the era (1860s to the 1970s) and categories (people, places, events, sports, culture), and of course a search bar. If you found the photograph you were looking for, say the famous Dorothea Lange photograph of a migrant mother and her child below, you can expect them to be in a large resolution. They generally run in the 1000s by the 900s.
Photograph by Dorothea Lange, found on Google's LIFE archive.
I have to point out a negative about this archive though, and it is that Cooliris doesn't support it. I mean it really isn't a big deal, but the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw this archive was how cool it would be to browse through LIFE photos on Cooliris. Oh well, can't have everything I guess, right? NO WAY! CoolIris, get on that!
"Whats the capitol of Uruguay?".."I don't know, google it." (It's Montevideo, thanks Google.).
And now these two awesome things have joined together to create something pretty awesome; a digital archive of LIFE photographs on Google's image search engine. According to the LIFE archive page, you can search from millions of LIFE photographs from the 1750s up until today. Flipping through millions of photographs may sound like a daunting task, but of course Google's search engine makes it pretty easy to find a photograph. The LIFE archive page organizes the photographs based on the era (1860s to the 1970s) and categories (people, places, events, sports, culture), and of course a search bar. If you found the photograph you were looking for, say the famous Dorothea Lange photograph of a migrant mother and her child below, you can expect them to be in a large resolution. They generally run in the 1000s by the 900s.
Photograph by Dorothea Lange, found on Google's LIFE archive.I have to point out a negative about this archive though, and it is that Cooliris doesn't support it. I mean it really isn't a big deal, but the first thing that crossed my mind when I saw this archive was how cool it would be to browse through LIFE photos on Cooliris. Oh well, can't have everything I guess, right? NO WAY! CoolIris, get on that!
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