The photographic archives of LIFE published on Google

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Florence Thompson, immigrant, with two children | Taken by Dorothea Lange in 1936

Life is a magazine based on photojournalism was born in 1883 and subsequently acquired by the founder of Time, Henry Luce in 1936. One can say that it is the very icon of the photo-reportage of the last century, in fact it cooperated with the characters that we experienced the most significant (from Presidents to adventurers). His images have the power to influence a number of occasions' s American and world public opinion on important issues like the Cold War, the U.S. economy or human rights. Be published by LIFE was the dream of every photographer in the last hundred years of history ... This presentation is only to make you sense the historical importance of the 10 million shots, the second half of the 800 now, which you can find in his photo archives, published up to now only 20% owned by Google. While if you want to deepen the history of LIFE I refer you to link to English Wikipedia as it is concerned.