Google gives Life to photos

US magazine Life has announced a partnership with Google to make more than 10 million archived photographs available on the internet giant's search engine.

The archive, which will be updated over the coming months, includes famous images chronicling events such as the Great Depression, both World Wars and photos of celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe.

Many photos from Life are available already through Google Image Search, searchable by keyword, but the magazine said that 97 per cent of the photos it will make available have never been seen before by the public.

"This effort to bring offline images online was inspired by our mission to organize all the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful," Google software engineer Paco Galanes wrote on the company's official blog.

The Google Life collection will include digitized photos and etchings from the magazine dating all the way back to the 1750s.

One of the magazine's most famous photos, taken by Alfred Eisenstaedt, shows a sailor kissing a nurse during the celebration of VJ Day in New York City in 27 August, 1945.

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