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Sport & General – The War Years

By Will CarletonUncategorized

The Press Association archive expert Dan has sent in these images of the Sport & General photo agency in response to the search we are doing for a member of…

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August 21, 2010

The Lost Negatives : Ansel Adams Find Goes Online

By Will CarletonUncategorized

click image for more Prints for Sale A team of art and forensic experts have concluded an exhaustive three-year examination of 65 glass negatives purchased at a garage sale by…

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August 2, 2010

PAN Partners with the Picture Editors’ Guild Awards 2010

By Will CarletonUncategorized

I am very happy to announce Photo Archive News has been appointed Media Partner for the UK Picture Editors Guild Awards 2010! The UK Picture Editors’ Guild has appointed industry…

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July 30, 2010

Looking for Press Directories

By Will CarletonUncategorized

Mitchell’s Newspaper Press Directory 1914 – 1946Bain Press Directories 1946 – Sell’s Dictionary of the World Press – includes “Directory of Press Photographers London and Provincial Lists”Contact the office or…

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April 13, 2010

Press Agency Index : First Phase Underway 1899 – 1914

By Will CarletonUncategorized

We are under way with compiling the early part of the press agency index list. This part of the project is being coordinated by John Balean from photo library Topfoto….

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March 31, 2010

Looking For: Trans World Feature Syndicates

By Will CarletonUncategorized

This in from a photographer:‘Back in the 1970’s I was living in India so had my agency (Trans World Feature Syndicates) transfer my stuff to their London office. I was…

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March 23, 2010

Times Wide World – Missing Images: 1919 – 1941

By Will CarletonUncategorized

All images copyright Times Wide World London Bureau “These photos of the Times Wide World London Bureau’s picture library are a mystery. Where did all the 1.5 million negs and…

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March 4, 2010

Looking for: copyright holders – World’s Graphic Press

By Will CarletonUncategorized

If you own or know where the content of World’s Graphic Press photo agency is please write to me [email protected] – a PhotoArchiveNews.com reader is looking to pay a license…

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February 22, 2010

Looking For: The First Agency

By Will CarletonUncategorized

As part of the ongoing project to map the photo agencies of Fleet Street I am looking for the name and details of the first independent photo agency to set…

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January 8, 2010

Looking For: Photo Agencies and Copyright

By Will CarletonUncategorized

A PhotoArchiveNews reader is looking for the owners of the following: “Rose” (Paris) postcard – Aeronautics – Ashworth, Meredith & Waddington Ltd – Farringdon Photo Compapany – G. R Ltd…

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December 10, 2009
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Image requests

We provide a copyright search service connecting image license requests with image owners through our network of contacts at newspaper archives and commercial photo libraries.

The Project

We are mapping the lives and whereabouts of press photo agencies and newspaper photographers based in and around Fleet Street and the UK from 1904 - 1995, with a long term plan to map all press photo agencies throughout the world.

Why is it important?

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.

The Memories

The Press Photo History Project is building a ‘family tree’, which is helping to find the original owners of content. Eventually this would also provide an educational resource centred on the history of press photography. Starting with the Mapping of Fleet Street, this aims to include an index to photo agencies working in and around the ‘street’ and photographers memories of working lives.

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