This time
it looks like will be for real. Time Inc. has ceased publication for the picture magazine LIFE twice in the past. They pulled the plug first in 1972, primarily in response to the challenge of TV news, which made LIFE's photojournalism an aftermarket to news at 6 PM. They it was reborn from 1978 to 2000 as a monthly, but I don't know anyone personally who actually subscribed, and print editions looked rather sad at the supermarket checkout competing with Brittany and friends. Now it's down definitively as print; but alive again as a web entity. Photography is alive and well, on the screen.
“The market has moved dramatically since October 2004 and it is no longer appropriate to continue publication of Life as a newspaper supplement,” said Chairman Ann Moore.
Time Inc. said Life's Web site will launch later this year and feature about 10 million images, 97 percent of which have never been seen by the public. The collection includes work from Dust Bowl chronicler Margaret Bourke-White and Gordon Parks, perhaps best known as the director of 1971 movie “Shaft.”
Presumably the new LIFE will launch a “major portal” online to host its millions of award-winning photographs. It will feature about 10 million images, 97 percent of which have never been seen by the public. [via Cyberjournalist]
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