Oh good lord, yet another blow to my ability to stay on task: Google just launched a gigantic searchable archive of images from Life magazine. The collection includes roughly two million photographs spanning the 123 years that Life was published, from 1883–2006. Here are seven of my favorites:
Mies Van der Rohe peering between models of his Lake Shore Drive apartments, Chicago, 1956. Photographer: Frank Scherschel[image deleted]
Donyale Luna, Sydney, Australia
Picasso attempts to draw a Minotaur using light pen, Vallauris, France, 1949. Photographer: Gjon Mili
Gertrude Stein, France, 1944. Photographer: Carl Mydans
Members of the Sons of Watts acting as body guards in car of Presidential aspirant, Robert Kennedy, Los Angeles, 1968(A side point – today, November 20th, is RFK's birthday – he would have been 83.)
Folk Music Festival Ashville, NC. Photographer: W. Eugene Smith
Woodstock Music & Art Fair, Bethel, NY, August 1969. Photographer: John DominisClick here to procrastinate.
Via Vintage Seattle. Go there to procrastinate more.
2 comments:
Your selections are incredible. Going to go waste a few hours there myself...
oh lord, this is not what i need, but will be heading over there anyway.
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