Life Magazine Photo Archive

Nov 18 2008

Posted at 11:05 pm under Digital Media, photography

Thanks to Dr. Alec Couros aka courosa on twitter, I just learned about the Life Magazine photo archive on Google. World-famous Life photographer Gordon Parks is a special hero of mine, hailing from my home state of Kansas. I am eager to begin exploring his Life Magazine photography.

I expect I will spend hours browsing through the Life archive. It is definitely a keeper in my Delicious bookmarks.

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Alec Couroson 19 Nov 2008 at 8:40 am 1

Thanks for sharing the link to Parks’ story. This is great stuff, and it’s wonderful to be able to look at some of these photos with this biography in mind.I think we still take for granted those who walked before us, with great difficulty to ensure better treatment of all humans within our society.
Bill Genereuxon 19 Nov 2008 at 11:06 am 2

Here is the sad thing… I am a lifetime Kansas native, and only learned of Parks shortly before he died. I grew up my whole life here without knowing about one of our national treasures, a Kansas native son I never heard of.

I’ll spend the rest of my life introducing people in my state to him, his life and his work.