{"id":7541,"date":"2009-03-31T22:47:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-03-31T22:47:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T20:47:00","slug":"life-goes-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/7541-life-goes-live.html","title":{"rendered":"Life goes live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.life.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Life.com<\/strong><\/a> is a joint venture between Time Inc, which owns the LIFE archives, and the Getty Images photo service. <\/p>\n<p>The website features pictures from LIFE and new photos from Getty. <\/p>\n<p>It is organised in galleries featuring classic LIFE photographs on subjects such as World War II or the US space programme alongside recent pictures, such as a series on Natasha Richardson, the actress who died recently as the result of a freak skiiing accident. <\/p>\n<p>Talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres was brought in as a &quot;guest editor&quot; for the opening to help pick a series of &quot;cutest dog&quot; pictures. <\/p>\n<p>Selected photos on the site are available for purchase. <\/p>\n<p>Internet giant Google and Time have also announced plans to put the entire LIFE collection online at images.google.com\/hosted\/life. <\/p>\n<p>The collection includes pictures from renowned photojournalists such as Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks and W Eugene Smith. <\/p>\n<p>Time Inc, part of the Time Warner media empire, is the largest magazine publisher in the United States with more than 120 titles. <\/p>\n<p>Getty Images was founded in 1995 and was purchased last year by Hellman &amp; Friedman, a private equity firm, for $2.4bn. <\/p>\n<p>Agence France-Presse has a content-sharing agreement with Getty, under which the US firm distributes digital photographs provided by the French news agency. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIFE, the defunct US magazine, came back to life on Tuesday as a website featuring photographs from its legendary and prize-winning collection. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7541"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}