November 23: LIFE magazine re-launched (1936)

A cover of LIFE magazine

A weekly news magazine LIFE was re-launched by Henry Luce, the founder of Time magazine, with a strong emphasis on photojournalism in 1936. Henry Luce bought the Life magazine to own the brand, which was originally founded in 1883. LIFE magazine had been published until 1972 as a weekly magazine. The first all-photographic American news magazine. A photo tells a story. Wildly successful for over 30 years. At one point, sold more than 13.5 million copies a week. Later it was published intermittently and then monthly for a while. Google began hosting an archive of the magazines photographs as a joint efforts with LIFE - LIFE photo archive hosted by Google.  LIFE.com was launched in March 2009 as a joint venture of Getty Images and LIFE magazine.