Agatha Christie – the photographer

By Will CarletonJanuary 3, 2017Will Carleton

NewsOK website have published an article showing photos (released via AP) taken by crime writer Agatha Christie while she helped document her husband archeologist Max Mallowan in Iraq – 1949 HERE

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At the turn of the 20th century, there was vast growth in press agencies and photographers due to the massive thirst for images in newspapers. Many are still in existence but others have been sold, absorbed or simply disappeared, effectively leaving gaps in the history of this industry… many agency offices were bombed during the WWII London Blitz resulting negative and print files being water damage from the hoses quenching the fires …most archives were in the building basements.

Agatha Christie – the photographer

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