Life!

They really do have some amazing photos on there,which are free to save as long as they aren`t used for commercial purposes.
I am spending a lot of time on there!
They say 97 % of the photos in their archives have never been published.

Buildy · November 27, 2008, 4:24pm

Naples italy-1943:

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=Jeep+source:life&imgurl=bdd1a6c9662c1c30

Naples 1943-if you look close at the top of the stairs,looks like a US Soldier has found a pretty girl to spend time with.

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=Jeep+source:life&imgurl=40c462064304d829

Sergej · November 27, 2008, 7:43pm

They have great pics, but I hate the watermarks.:evil:

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=t28+source:life&imgurl=c7ca2a5ab678d508

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=t28+source:life&imgurl=e66d525743a10a7d

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=t28+source:life&imgurl=4f5e597d8ade735b

Buildy · November 27, 2008, 9:17pm

I understand,and Im not a big fan of water marks either. However,as these things go,they could be much worse. They do keep them in the lower Rt hand corner,and the WMs arent in some garish color.
I still find this a fabulous resource,in spite of the WMs.
Also the fact that they offer these in a nice size that still doesn`t use too much disc space to save them,is pretty cool.

Buildy · November 27, 2008, 10:28pm

Assembling a Wasp Radial Engine-1941

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=1941+source:life&imgurl=6602b24a7498b3d1

Another beauty from the Pratt and Whitney factory:

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=Pratt+source:life&imgurl=a7001995c9459c13

Buildy · November 27, 2008, 10:47pm

Most probably already know about this,but for those who don`t,there are tons of nice color photos of the WW II era here:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/f?fsaall:0:./temp/~ammem_rthf:

United States “Home front” primarily.

Rising_Sun · November 28, 2008, 12:03am

Buildy

You have some great links there, which should interest a lot of the forum’s members.

Keep up the good work!

Buildy · November 28, 2008, 12:57am

Thank you-glad to help-if I find more good sites,I will post them here!

Buildy · November 28, 2008, 6:42pm

I wish more WW II era photographers used the quality color film that this gem from 1941 has!

US Battleship before Pearl Harbor.

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/f?q=Destroyer+source:life&imgurl=e8c7b5e87e7dcf29

Rising_Sun · December 6, 2008, 12:34pm

Buildy

You might be able to help me find what has been presented as a Life picture on several websites, but I’m a bit sceptical about it.

It’s Natalie Nickerson in this link http://www.codoh.com/atro/atrocity.html , gazing at a supposedly Japanese skull supposedly sent to her by her boyfriend in the Pacific.

I haven’t been able to find it by trying to seach Life.

Can you find it on the Life site, or otherwise verify it, or disqualify it, as a genuine Life photo?

Rising_Sun · December 6, 2008, 1:02pm

It’s probably not the film.

If you look at the men first and third from the right you’ll see that their ties have obscured their rifles but that the ties are faint, while the stock is visible behind the tie of the bloke third from left.

This indicates that wind blew the ties which moved around a bit during a relatively long exposure time which was short enough to capture the men crisply but long enough to be unable to stop the movement of the ties.

You will also notice that everything on the ship is in good focus, although it falls off a bit in the background. This indicates a smallish lens aperture which gives good depth of field (sharpness into the distance) but also requires longer exposure times to burn the image into the film.

As a general rule with film of that era, and much later whether colour or black and white, you got better defined images with smaller apertures and longer exposures, but any movement (such as ties blowing in the wind) won’t be frozen in the image.

mike_M · December 6, 2008, 5:14pm

Wow…I agree, Fantastic! Love the dauntles

the_librarian · December 7, 2008, 8:50am

Hi all,

May 22, 1944. I’ve got the issue. It’s a full page black and white photo, labeled Photo of the Week.

Caption reads: (portions…I didn’t type the whole thing…)

“When he said goodby two years ago to Natalie Nickerson, 20, a war worker of Phoenix…Last week Natalie received a human skull, autographed by her lieutenant and 13 friends, and inscribed…‘picked up on the New guinea beach’…Natalie, suprised at the gift, named it Tojo. The armed forces disapprove strongly of this sort of thing.”

Here’s a google books link: http://books.google.com/books?id=-vTLF9KIzYoC

It’s a book entitled “The Clash”

There’s a reference to the skull on page 229.

There’s also a informative Wikipedia article on this subject, please forgive me if everyone has seen this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_mutilation_of_Japanese_war_dead

Hope this helps a bit…