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LIFE’s photos of polar regions now on Google
Google has just announced that they have begun making the entire 10-million photo archive of LIFE magazine available on their servers. To access the images just do an image search for a topic, adding “source:life” to your search query. Searching for ”antarctica source:life” or ”arctic source:life” serves up some stunning photography, most of it never published before. Here is just a small sampler:
Lt.j.g. John Tuck in charge of Anundsen-Scott base in Antarctica. (1956)
Beautiful vistas of rocky escarpments, snow-topped peaks, as seen from low-flying plane. (1956)
Google says that so far it has only added about 20% of LIFE’s photo archives to its servers, but that the rest will be available in the coming months, so check back often.
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, Nov 28th, 2008:
permalink report this comment as inappropriateSome care should be exercised in viewing the LIFE images, as not all of the captions are necessarily correct. For example:
“Douglas Mawson peering over edge of crevase into which his comrade Lt. Minnis has fallen along w. sled, dogs and supplies during Arctic expedition.”
Ninnis died on Dec. 14, 1912, during the Australian Antarctic Expedition of 1911-14.
Lucia Simion, Nov 24th, 2008:
permalink report this comment as inappropriateThat’s a cool project and some of the antarctic photos are really beautiful.