Google and Time Inc. have teamed up to bring more than 10 million images from Life magazine to users around the world. The free image portal contains collections from Life's Photo Archive, including some of the most iconic works of the 20th century by photojournalists such as Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks and W. Eugene Smith.

Already, millions of Life images are available for viewing via Google Image Search. Once the online project is complete in the next few months, the archive will be among the largest professional photography collections on the web and one of the largest photo-scanning projects ever undertaken...

Photojournalist Gordon Parks, known for his work with Life magazine as well as for directing films, died at his home in New York City on March 7, at the age of 93.

Parks was born in Fort Scott, Kan., in 1912, the youngest of 15 children. In 1941, he became the first photographer to receive a fellowship from the Julius Rosenwald Foundation. He joined the staff of the Farm Security Administration and, later, the Office of War Information, whose combined collection of documentary photographs is among the...

International Photography Awards recently announced the honorees and nominees for the 2004 Lucie Awards.

The ceremonies will be held Oct. 18 at the American Airlines Theatre in New York City. Special Tribute presentations will honor Helmut Newton and Francesco Scavullo. Gene Trindl and Henri Cartier-Bresson, recipients of Lucie Awards in 2003, will be remembered, and the winners of the IPA Photographer of the Year and Discovery awards also will be...