If the Post says it, you gotta believe it, no? This is very interesting:

“The Life name is getting a new lease on life.

After having shut down three times as a magazine, the Life title isbeing resurrected as part of a joint venture between Time Inc. andGetty Images that will launch a Web site offering free, downloadablephotos from world-renowned photographers.

For Time Inc., the venture is a bit of a gamble, as the publisherhas tried repeatedly to resuscitate the venerable magazine that startedas an oversize glossy in 1936.

It most recently shut down in April 2007 as a newspaper supplement.

For Getty, which was taken over by Silicon Valley venture firmHellman & Friedman for $2.4 billion in July, the deal is a chanceto battle the inroads that the Internet had made into its mainprofessional photo market by aiming for the consumer market for thefirst time.

Only consumers who use the images for non-commercial purposes willbe permitted to tap into the photos, which will include 3,000 newdownloads from Getty plus the extensive archives from both Getty andthe original Life magazine.”

What does it all mean? How will the images be free- will there be advertising? How will they control usage? It all makes my head spin.

In any case, the arrangement of covers above is from Magnum’s blog, back in November ’07. Here are the credits:

From top leftto bottom right: Cover from May 22, 1950 showing Duke and Dutchess ofWindsor. © Philippe Halsman / Magnum Photos; Cover from January 15,1955 showing a street scene in Moscow. © Henri Cartier-Bresson / MagnumPhotos; Cover from August 13, 1951 showing Martin and Lewis. © PhilippeHalsman / Magnum Photos; Cover from April 7, 1952 showing MarylinMonroe. © Philippe Halsman / Magnum Photos; Cover from November 19,1956 showing a wounded Egyptian in battle for Mideast. © Burt Glinn /Magnum Photos; Cover from January 18, 1943 showing Rita Hayworth. ©Philippe Halsman / Magnum Photos; Halsman’s first LIFE cover fromOctober 5, 1942. © Philippe Halsman / Magnum Photos; Cover fromNovember 15, 1954 showing Gina Lollobrigida. © David Seymour / MagnumPhotos; Cover from May 15, 1944 showing General Montgomery. © GeorgeRodger / Magnum Photos; Cover from March 15, 1963 showing Fidel Castro.© Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos; Cover from February 1, 1963showing Alfred Hitchcock. © Philippe Halsman / Magnum Photos; Coverfrom February 13, 1950 showing a girl in Indonesia. © HenriCartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos; Cover from August 18, 1961 showingMickey Mantle and Roger Maris. © Philippe Halsman / Magnum Photos