This is too cool for words, which is fine and also makes sense, since it is an incredible archive of photography. The work of Life Magazine's legendary photographers (artists like Allan Grant, Yale Joel, John Dominis, Gjon Mili, N.R. Farbman, Grey Villet, Peter Stackpole and countless others) is now available in a massive internet archive powered by a handy dandy search engine. Regulars to Beware of the Blog know I'm pretty much obsessed with anything having to do with old showbiz and these classic black and white Life stills really conjure up the walls of an ancient cigar chompin' Broadway agent. Find yourself lost for days in a Broadway Danny Rose world with this super cool development put together by behemoths TimeWarner and Google. I've organized some of my favorites on my own site - click on them to enlarge. Check out:
Ed Sullivan
Bill Cosby
Lucille Ball
Milton Berle
Woody Allen
Mort Sahl
Groucho Marx
Bob Hope
Jerry Lester
Edward R. Murrow
And the beautiful Yma Sumac
These are just some meager examples. There are thousands and thousands of amazing photos to unearth. Now go search for your own favorites.
amazing. and i went on a search for marilyn monroe. but half asleep and could not remember if the 'i' came before the 'y', i just typed 'monroe'.....and the first two pages were packed with a 'lucy monroe' and like 30 pictures of her...yodeling? singing? pronouncing? i don't know but it seems every vocal sound/facial expression was covered....surely a gif animator's dream if anyone is interested.
Posted by: zom | November 23, 2008 at 08:59 AM
Not impressed. Did a search for the Beatles and found less than 40 pics. Many of them not of the Beatles. A regular google search comes up with over 30 million. Okay, I wasn't looking for quantity, but quality. I found neither.
Posted by: Dreamer | November 23, 2008 at 11:15 AM
Hoping that they add more of Gordon Parks Sr.'s body of work that he did for LIFE.
They have quite a few,but mainly his coverage of Fasion shows,before he started doing his best work.
Posted by: | November 23, 2008 at 01:38 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, Mister Ernie Kovacs.
Posted by: Listener James from Westwood | November 23, 2008 at 03:37 PM
interesting ...
I think this is something that more people need to know about......
jsmith
thanks
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