Google’s Giving You Something For the Holidays
Google, which got its amazing little hands on the entire Life Magazine photo library, is putting it up online. The entire archive should be up by next spring, and they plan to keep adding photos. There are millions of images, going back to the 1750s.
God, I love the internet.
http://images.google.com/hosted/life
Photos from the 1750s? fingers on the wrong keys maybe?
It looks like there’s some very cool stuff there though. I can’t wait to explore.
WOW! Thanks for the link!
You know, I thought that 1750s thing was wrong, too. But that’s what it says on the site. And my history of photography is sketchy (even though it was my undergrad minor a million years ago). I thought photography really took off during the Civil War, but for all i know there were pinbox pictures before that.
As if YouTube and instant answers to trivial questions wasn’t a good enough reason to love the internet to begin with… Thanks for the 411 on “Life”.
And one of the things I love about the Internet is that you can look up the history of photography.
From http://www.niepce.com/pagus/pagus-inv.html
The first photographic process or heliography was invented around 1824 by Nicephore Niépce .Images were obtained with Judea bitumen spread on a silver plate after an exposure time of many days.
In 1829, Niépce associated Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre to his research .
In 1832, they put the last touch , using a residue of lavender oil distillation , a second process producing images in a one day exposure time.
In 1833 Niépce died, Daguerre went on working alone and invented, in 1838, the daguerreotype, the first process including a development stage. A silver plate coated with a very thin silver iodide layer was exposed in a camera obscura then exposed to mercury vapors that induced the apparition of the invisible latent image that had been formed during the exposure to light. This development was in fact such an amplification of the effect of light that the exposure time was hardly more than 30 minutes. Fixing was done by immersing the plate in sea salted water.
I checked that site out. Thank you so much. Like Ravelry wasn’t ENOUGH of a time suck, you had to give me this???
If you search 1750 in the search box, you get several pictures of…well…pictures of Bach.
thank you thank you thank you a delighted grandaughter will be transfixed with ballet pix thru the years
Wow!!! Awesome photos. Thanks so much for the link.
ver cool indeed. and thanks for the advice on the previous post! hugs
Coolness. The neatest thing is, putting them up on the ‘net ensures that they can’t be lost to future generations. That’s a whole lot of history. I love the idea of being able to browse through the centuries at leisure.
Oh, it says 1750, but you’ll note that the first grouping says 1860s, so there’s likely a typo on somebody’s part. Well, they’re giving us all those lovely photos, we can forgive them this one little error.
I teach Anatomy & Physiology at the University and Google Images has been a Godsend in preping PowerPoint programs. You can search for the name of a muscle or organ, etc. and whatever is up on the web is available for you to see. Just a wonderful resource. Talk about a picture being worth a thousand words.
For my WIP, I googled (yes, Virginia, it’s now a verb) men, women, handsome men, etc. to find pix of my hero and heroine as well as other cast members. Or, put in the name of your favorite movie star. Goldmine.
What do you gals do when looking for beta readers? Trusty friends or online wise wip crackers?
“it says 1750, but you’ll note that the first grouping says 1860s, so there’s likely a typo on somebody’s part.”
No, if you search for “1750s” you get LIFE’s collection of etchings.
Google’s announcement got it right: “photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s”. AP screwed it up by conflating “image” with “photo”.
it’s a shame there are only 6 pages from 1750’s but still a Halleluiah moment. Thanks Jenny for the link and RfP for clearing it up.
Merry early christukah!
Thanks so much, Jenny! (Google Images is a fabulous resource for use in teaching history, as well.)
Thanks, Jenny. Interesting viewing.