Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Life.com Archive to Launch Soon

Margaret Bourke-White. Alfred Eisenstadt. Gordon Parks. W. Eugene Smith. Those of you familiar with Life magazine know that these are some of that famed magazine's famed photographers. Now you can see their photos and more than ten million images from the Life photo archive. The new Life site--Life.com--Your World in Pictures--will launch in early 2009.  It is co-sponsored by Getty Images. 

Here's how they're planning to make money from this venture: Images will be directly linked to the sales site QOOP.  Getty Images will handle licensing for commercial purposes.  So it will be a fun site to browse.  And, Time Inc. hopes some of those browsers become buyers.


 

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