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.
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.
8 comments:
cool. But damn you because I don't need another fascinating time-sucker in my Life right now.
p.s. the link for the woman sitting in some kind of machine is wrong. It takes you to the women's safety equipment photo.
Hey - that's LIFE. I fixed the link. Thanx
We-ired! And wonderful in its own twisted little way. The dance shoes on the women limbering up are a nice touch.
The link on the guy with the head attachments takes you to knitting woman.
It seems to be a bug I can't fix. I tried and it pushed the busted link up one image so the Babs now links to Gorgeous George and I don't have time to chase it all the way up the page. BTW I never noticed the shoes. Good catch!
the women in the war movement pics is a great shot. the plastic bra.. interesting haha.
great blog.
im interested to see more for sure!
definitely like the run-around saying at the top of the page.
Thanks Andy - I'm glad you liked the banner cuz putting that puppy together in Windows Paint was more arduous than creating the post
P.S. I learned that saying from your Grandpa a long long time ago.
He also taught us:
You remind me of a man.
What man?
The man with the power.
What power?
The power of Hoo-Doo.
Hoo-Doo?
You do.
Do what?
Remind me of a man.
What man?
etc.
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