The “Migrant Mother,” Florence Thompson. (Credit: Dorothea Lange/LIFE)From Gadgetwise/New York Times:
For those looking to feed their idle photo printers, one of the most magnificent photo archives of the past century is now available on Google.
It’s the Life magazine collection, some 10 million images all together, from Marilyn Monroe and JFK to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Following the deal between Google and the keepers of the Life archive, a vast chunk is now up on line at Google Image Search.
“Only a small percentage of these images have ever been published” said a statement from Google. “The rest have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings and prints.” A spokeswoman for Time Inc. said that the archives in their entirety would be available in the first quarter of next year.
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