Life gets new life on web

LEGENDARY PHOTO magazine Life is getting a new lease on life as a website.

The magazine, famous for award-winning snaps, is being set up by Time and the Getty Images photo service.

However it will be a shadow of its former news-breaking self. Life.com will feature photos from the Life archives and Getty Images and will not make any new content.

Jonathan Klein, chief executive of Getty Images said the site will start early next year and will display millions of photographs from Life magazine taken between the 1930s and 1990s including many which have never been seen before by the public.

The new editor Bill Shapiro said that only three percent of the Life archive has been seen by the public. However the site will put everything on display.

There will also be access to thousands of new pictures from Getty Images with more than 3,000 new Getty images being uploaded daily.

Searching the site will be free but no one is saying how much it will set you back to use any of the snaps. But the Gettys didn't get their huge piles of cash by giving stuff away cheap. µ

L'Inq
AP