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Jimmy Horton, photographer and founder of the UK’s number one specialist criminal and courts photo agency, Photo News, passed away in January 2003 aged 41. Jimmy started Photo News…
Terry Smith who owned UK based photo agency -Universal Pictorial Press Agency (UPPA)- until its sale to Photoshot in 2002 has died aged 74. He died on Monday 17 January…
A reader has sent us brief details about a London based agency called Fast News Pictures-or Photos – “the 1st all digi agency owned by John Blishem run by Clive…
Chris Johnson writes an obit for Charles Owen at PressGazette.co.uk: The death of former Daily Mirror photographer Charles Owens marks the end of an era.Charles was one of the most…
We are currently researching names and addresses of agencies operating in the UK from directories and other media material in the British Library. This research is very labour intensive requiring…
“All the time the great machines shake Fleet Street, throbbing and thundering as they pour that rather wonderful thing built up by an astonishing organization from the raw materials of…
AP Boston photographer J. Walter Green, (on the left) assigned to Rome, discusses coverage with AP London photographer Lawrence Harris at London’s Wembley Stadium during the Summer Olympics, August 1948….
The Daily Mail has an article covering their shot of St Pauls taken by photographer Herbert Mason during the Blitz.‘Today is the anniversary of one of the greatest photographs of…
This is an interesting article written in History Today 1993. The Candid Camera of the Edwardian TabloidsNicholas Hiley Tabloid intrusion into the lives of the famous via the photo lens…
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