World Wide Web World
digital LIFE
Whoa. Millions of photos from LIFE magazine are all online at google images. A promotional page is here, but use search filter source: life with whatever search term you like. We are reading (and loving) the Grapes of Wrath right now, so we’re digging this 1930s migrant search.
Wish they would scan the ads, too.
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Have you read the Heffernan article about this in the NYTimes Mag?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/magazine/01wwln-medium-t.html
A pretty valid critique. We were dissapointed with the groupings they present on the main page, which don’t make mention that they are highly excerpted, topic-specific selections from a much larger selection of photos from those periods.
But at least the site is compatible with Cooliris (http://cooliris.com/) so you can indeed view search results as a slideshow.
Yeah, it’s valid but I would personally prefer quantity of digitization & ability to download fairly hi-res images over a carefully curated collection, at this point–especially for such an enormous collection. Though I suppose they aren’t mutually exclusive.
Thanks for the Cooliris tip…!