{"id":16817,"date":"2012-01-28T18:23:39","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T02:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wapreview.com\/?p=16817"},"modified":"2012-01-28T18:23:40","modified_gmt":"2012-01-29T02:23:40","slug":"life-coms-searchable-mobile-gallery-of-over-10-million-photographs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wapreview.com\/16817\/","title":{"rendered":"LIFE.com’s Searchable Mobile Gallery Of Over 10 Million Photographs"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Before TV and the Web, LIFE Magazine was the biggest thing in mass media.\u00a0 The large format pictorial news weekly was the best selling magazine in the US with a weekly circulation of over 13.5 million in the 1940’s.<\/p>\n LIFE played a major role in the development of the craft of photojournalism. \u00a0It published many of the best photographers of the 20th Ccentury including Alfred Eisenstaed, Robert Capa,\u00a0Margaret Bourke-White, Andreas Feininger, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, W. Eugene Smith and Edward Steichen.<\/p>\n Unable to compete with television, LIFE ceased publication as a weekly in 1972. It resumed several years later as a monthly and published its last issue in 2000.<\/p>\n In 2009, LIFE’s parent, Time, Inc., launched LIFE.com as a joint venture with Getty Images. The site draws from the combined LIFE and Getty photo archives of over 10 million images to create a revolving gallery of some of the best current and historic news photos on the Web. The image archive is also searchable.<\/p>\n LIFE’s mobile site is more of the same in a smaller scale. It includes image search and a rotating gallery arranged by topic.\u00a0 Formatted for a minimum screen width of 320 px and with page sizes of up to a megabyte, LIFE Mobile works best with smartphone browsers or Opera Mini on large screened feature phones.<\/p>\n Filed in:<\/em> Wap Review Directory – Entertainment and Leisure\/Images<\/a> Before TV and the Web, LIFE Magazine was the biggest thing in mass media.\u00a0 The large format pictorial news weekly was the best selling magazine in the US with a weekly circulation of over 13.5 million in the 1940’s. LIFE played a major role in the development of the craft of photojournalism. \u00a0It published many of the best photographers of the 20th Ccentury including Alfred Eisenstaed, Robert Capa,\u00a0Margaret Bourke-White, Andreas Feininger, Dorothea Lange, Gordon Parks, W. Eugene Smith and Edward … Continue reading
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\nMobile Link:<\/em> m.life.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"