OMG. I will busy for ages, between LIFE on Google and www.shorpy.com

Try the search machine; http://images.google.com/hosted/life

LIFE is GREAT! The homepage is great for preselecting some subjects;



Mrs. Roger Chaffee (C) and family of astronaut who died in fire aboard Apollo space capsule.
Location: US
Date taken: 1968
Photographer: Ralph Morse
Size: 1029 x 1280 pixels (14.3 x 17.8 inches)



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Academy Awards
Actress Grace Kelly holding her Best Actress Oscar (for "The Country Girl"), following the 27th annual Academy Awards presentation at the RKO Pantages theater.
Location: Hollywood, CA, US
Date taken: March 30, 1955
Photographer: George Silk
Size: 889 x 1280 pixels (12.3 x 17.8 inches)

A surf rider surfing.
Location: CA, US
Date taken: 1961
Photographer: Allan Grant
Size: 888 x 1280 pixels (12.3 x 17.8 inches)

15 year old high school student Rue Lawrence in class at New Trier High School outside Chicago.
Location: IL, US
Date taken: June 1950
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt
Size: 1221 x 1280 pixels (17.0 x 17.8 inches)

I saw that Vanity Fair portraits book today, but it cost $127 I really want it

ZombieKitten said:

I saw it cheaper here in Amsterdam...

Poor you.

HamsterHuey said:

our dollar is worthless right now

YAY This is amazing HH

Best info posted in GD in a long while


TY


This !

Mach said:

They have loads of pics on the subject I am writing a story on, so it is GREAT info to use.

Fans of Mohammed Ali at Clay-Bonavena fight outside Madison Square Garden.
Location: New York, NY, US
Date taken: December 1970
Photographer: Bill Ray

Big scan; http://images.google.com/...7359a7a3fc

Jacqueline Kennedy attending the inauguration of her husband, Pres. John F. Kennedy.
Location: Washington, DC, US
Date taken: January 20, 1960
Photographer: Paul Schutzer


Big scan; http://images.google.com/...e6bd7e3e2f

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy showing off James Monroe era candelabrum in White House.
Location: Washington, DC, US
Date taken: July 1961
Photographer: Ed Clark

Big scan; http://images.google.com/...9c14ace54b

Very cool. I'll have to scour the site for Gordon Parks stuff.

Actress Marlene Dietrich wearing tuxedo, top hat, corsage and holding cigarette at Ball for foreign press.
Location: Berlin, Germany
Date taken: 1929
Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt

Big scan; http://images.google.com/...45fc2289b8

ProbablyMonroe at her most beautiful.

Marilyn Monroe
Date taken: August 08, 1950
Photographer: Edward Clark

Big scan; http://images.google.com/...e0933d247a

Ella Fitzgerald
Jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald performing at "Mr. Kelly's" nightclub w. audience dimly visible in bkgrd.

Photographer: Yale Joel

lol

Lammastide said:

Who?

Photographer Gordon Parks?

Fashions -Long Haired Furs
Date taken: October 1952
Photographer: Gordon Parks

In the 1980s section there is a picture of a bleach blonded Ozzy Osbourne strangling Sharon (when she was fat)..they were and always will be such chavs, but very wealthy chavs.

HamsterHuey said:

He was an African American photo essayist for Life from the late '40s through the early '70s. He's maybe best known for his shots of the American South, the inner city North and the Civil Rights Movement. I knew about his celebrity shots, but I had no idea he'd done so much fashion photography.

Very cool find, Herman.

Lammastide said:

I am addicted to this link.

And often photogrpahers had to take commercial jobs to pay for the work in which they poored their harts.
I want to check out his American South pics now...

Thanks for these links, I'll be back to post some favs when I have more time.

SOPHA KING COOL!

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. giving his "I Have a Dream" speech to huge crowd gathered for the Mall in Washington DC during the March on Washington for Jobs & Freedom (aka the Freedom March).

Big scan; http://images.google.com/...aeb4125490

There is a poignant photo series of Hirosjima after the bomb which makes me wanna cry.

http://images.google.com/...ed71ef1b4c

HamsterHuey said:

uh!

Can you explain why all Prince pics are tagged Al Pacino/Prince ??

Herman, you should also check out Flickr commons:

http://www.flickr.com/com...41dbfc356f