LIFE's iconic photos now available online

by Rich Bowden - Nov 18 2008, 21:27

LIFE Magazine has announced it will make available over 10 million of its archival photographs through a partnership with search engine Google.

Img: LIFE Cover 1966. Credit: Henri Huet.

Some of the featured photographers will include greats in the field such as Gordon Parks, Margaret Bourke-White, and Dorothea Lange. Many of the released images have never before been published and can now be accessed through Google's image search function.The partnership between LIFE and Google has so far managed to document only 20 percent of the images, with Google saying work to add the entire collection is continuing."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," said Google in a statement. "This collection of newly-digitized images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s."The pictures are categorised for the curious searcher here under the decade in which they were taken or under a separate category. Access to the pictures can be gained through the Google landing page and copies can be bought if so desired.The adding of the entire catalogue, which includes some 10 million images, will take several months to complete, says Google.

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