LIFE photo archive now online

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Time said access to LIFE's photo archive of more than 10 million images would be available on a new hosted service from the Internet search giant at; images.google.com/hosted/life.

The images from LIFE, a Time Inc. subsidiary, can also be found by conducting a search on Google.com or through Google Image Search.

The collection includes pictures from renowned photojournalists such as Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks and W. Eugene Smith.

The LIFE photo archive also includes the Zapruder film of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, The Mansell Collection from London and Hugo Jaeger's pictures of Nazi-era Germany from 1937 to 1944. Time said 97 percent of the photographs have never been seen by the public before.

"Millions of images have been scanned and made available on Google Image Search today and all 10 million images will become available in coming months," Time said in a statement.

"LIFE will now reach a broader audience and engage them online with the incredible depth and breadth of the LIFE photo archive that includes serious world events, Hollywood celebrities and whimsical photographs." LIFE president Andy Blau said.

Never-before-seen images
R.J. Pittman, director of product management at Google, said "bringing millions of never-before-seen offline images online fits with Google's mission to organize all the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful."

Time said the photos are available for free for personal and research purposes. In September, Time and the Getty Images photo service announced the launch early next year of a new website, LIFE.com, featuring photos from the LIFE archives and Getty Images.