Sunday, November 30, 2008

and now for something completely different!















We always assumed that if or when we eventually deigned to blog, or to be more accurate, finally got around to blogging we would be talking about and sharing tracks from vinyl records. However, we stumbled upon this marvellous internet resource of the LIFE photo archive and our life took a full tilt ADDilettante turn for the different. We haven't spun wax for a week or more but hey - thats LIFE!

This is a huge archive of millions of images and is not consistently cataloged or keyworded so navigation is sort of like prospecting and in that spirit we hope to share the nuggets, the motherlodes and the occasional open pit in future posts. Many of the sub-collections consist of dozens or in some cases hundreds of images from a given assignment so we will pan through those and present the brightest and shiniest. We will discuss photographers, subjects, events, and techniques but no doubt we will often fall back to sharing the visual oddities and non-sequiters such as those in this initial post.

For many images the captioning is minimal or non-existent or the subjects are pre-internet and we are left to make inferences about what is depicted. We invite you to share your inferences and critique ours and if you happen to have the issue of LIFE in which the subject appeared we would especialy like to hear from you as that may be the only source of textual information.