Discovered this newsworthy item of the day via the National Press Photographers Association website (news release snippets follow):

NEW YORK, NY (September 23, 2008) – Time Inc. and Getty Images will jointly launch Life.com in 2009, the companies announced today at the Interactive Advertising Bureau’s MIXX Conference in New York City…The new Life.com site will contain millions of images from the combined photographic collections of Life and Getty. The site will supposedly launch with several million images from Life’s archive and Getty says that 3,000 new photographs will be uploaded to the site daily by Getty photographers.

I’ve long been inspired by the imagery of Life magazine and it’s photographers. Which makes this quote especially exciting:

“Only three percent of the Life archive has been seen by the public,” says 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.” [Shapiro was formerly the managing editor of Life magazine during its third, and last, print version when it was a weekly weekend newspaper supplement.]

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