Iconic mag resurrected in cyberspace

NEW YORK: LIFE magazine, the legendary but now defunct US magazine known for its prize-winning photos, is getting a new lease on life — as a website. Time Inc., which owns the LIFE photo collection, and the Getty Images photo service announced on Tuesday the launch of a new website, LIFE.com, which will feature photos from the LIFE archives and Getty Images.

“LIFE.com brings together the two most-recognised brands in photography, making the defining images of our times even more accessible to people everywhere,” said Jonathan Klein, chief executive of Getty Images.

Time and Getty Images said LIFE.com will launch early next year and will display millions of photographs from LIFE magazine taken between the 1930s and 1990s including many which have never been seen before by the public.

“Only three percent of the LIFE archive has been seen by the public,” said LIFE.com editor Bill Shapiro. “This site will put everything on display. You’ll be able to look at the biggest events of yesterday and the stories making news today with just a couple of clicks.”

The site will also offer access to thousands of new pictures from Getty Images with more than 3,000 new Getty images being uploaded daily.

Agence France-Presse has a content sharing agreement with Getty under which the US firm distributes digital photographs provided by the French news agency.