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Searching for: Photographer Ian J. Hebditch based in Surrey

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

We have a request (part of a wider photo research we are doing) for a PPHP reader looking to clear rights on images of her great aunt artist Elva Blacker….

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November 11, 2019

For Sale: George Rodger Land Rover portfolio book £15

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

PAN has a few A5 sized mini portfolio books left from a series we did (series 1!) with Cafe Royal Books. It’s currently out of print and we’ll post it…

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November 7, 2019

Bernsen’s International Press Service – BIPS – Frank Martin

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

For the record: Bernsen’s International Press Service – BIPS and I’ll try to find the agency stamp and upload it here. I received this information on BIPS  from photographer Frank Martin: Formed by…

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September 10, 2019

Worldwide search for 100 ‘lost’ Sherlock Holmes films

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

UCLA Film & Television Archive, the second-largest moving archive in the U.S. after the Library of Congress, and The Baker Street Irregulars (BSI), the first and foremost international Sherlock Holmes…

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August 31, 2019

Image search: Planet News Thames sailing barge 1930s

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

A sailing society in the UK is trying to track down a Planet News image … Dear Sir, I am hoping to track down a Planet News photograph of the…

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August 27, 2019

Photo search: Keystone Press Agency – 3rd June 1938

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

This in from author Gurbir Singh: Author looking for pictures of Stephen H Smith in Calcutta, India. Originally by him to the Keystone Press Agency on 3rd June 1938. This…

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August 22, 2019

Updated: Park’s Press Photographic Agency, Fleet St

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Updated 20 August 2019 These images of victorian interiors (no details of location) shot by ‘Park’s Press Photographic Agency Ltd 89 Fleet St EC’ sent by a very kind reader…

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August 20, 2019

Searching for: Photographers Paul Cordes and Will Weissberg

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

In 2017 on our news site PhotoArchiveNews.com we posted a search for photographer Paul Cordes (1893-1979). This info and photo just in from a curator at the Smith College Museum…

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August 6, 2019

Info Please: Celebrity Photographer Hamilton Millard worked 1957 to 1968

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Updated 5 August 2019: Hello! I’m a picture researcher in the Finnish Broacastin Company Yle and I am now archiving negatives of a Finnish photographer who worked for one Finnish…

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August 5, 2019

Press photo gear: NC2000 launched the digital camera movement

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Photographer Barry Sweet remembering his first digital camera. This article is reproduced with kind permission of Barry Sweet and first published on Paul Stevens AP Connect Newsletter: Barry Sweet: I…

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July 31, 2019
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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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