The New York Times is debuting a photojournalism blog, and it looks like a winner.
Lens will be a showcase for the work of Times photographers, but it will also highlight the best images from other newspapers, magazines, news organizations and picture agencies, and from around the Web. It will point readers in the direction of important books, galleries and museum exhibitions. And it will draw on The Times’s own pictorial archive, numbering in the millions of images and going back to the early 20th century.
This picture was taken for a Mike Sula article in the Chicago Reader, in October of 2001. Stay tuned—I’m going to go back to that address in the next day or two and see if they’ve kept the name. Maybe they changed that first “S” to a “B” by now. It seems like ages ago that I was regularly shooting and making prints from film…
Millions of photographs from Life Magazine have been posted to Google Image Search, from the 1860s to the 1970s. Take a look–there are some amazing images.