What does Google+Life Magazine+Des Moines equal?
Google has just added image archives from LIFE Magazine, the storied American photo journal, to its image search. Google Images has launched a special page for the collection, allowing you to browse photos by specific topic like Marilyn Monroe or Winter Olympics, or places like Des Moines. You can also now append “source:life” to any Google Images search to see photos from the magazine.
Most of the photos actually didn’t appear in LIFE, but rather, were gathered from “dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints.”
According to Google, there are roughly 10 million photos in total, about 2 million of which have been put online so far. Time Inc, which owns the rights to the LIFE Magazine content, also plans to launch Life.com next year.
Here’s the link to go straight to the Des Moines archive: http://images.google.com/images?q=des+moines&q=source%3Alife.
The photo that appears here is from the TIME Magazine cover for August 28th, 1995 on the 20th Century Blues. Detail of painting “Automat” (1927) by Edward Hopper; from the Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collection.
Here are a few other pictures from that collection that I liked.
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