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February 12, 2019
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Image search: John Cadman Royal Institution Friday July 21, 1933

By Will Carleton | Will Carleton | No Comments

This into the PPHP; Hello, I am trying to find out who took a specific photo. There is a photo in a biography of John Cadman called Ambassador for Oil…

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February 7, 2019
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Searching for: Charles K Bowers and Sons photo agency

By Will Carleton | Will Carleton | No Comments

Hello Will Hope all is well. Since I last spoke to you in the Summer, I have secured work at the Warburg Institute (University of London), where I am digitising…

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February 7, 2019
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Photo agency detail: People in Pictures Ltd

By Will Carleton | Will Carleton | No Comments

This in from PPHP reader Maik Wagner Dear Will, I would like to make a contribution to your project and noticed that the photo agency I did an internship with in 1998…

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January 18, 2019
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Tutankhamun dig images – who owns what?

By Will Carleton | Will Carleton | No Comments

Often asked this one here at the Press Photo History project: How do I license Tutankhamun tomb opening images? Photographer Harry Burton shot the most memorable images Carter’s discovery, he…

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January 18, 2019
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For Sale: Fox Photo 1976 auction sale catalogue – copies available

By Will Carleton | Will Carleton | No Comments

For sale: The Fox Photo Archive sale by auction catalogue – Sotheby’s Belgravia 1976 – all proceeds to our Press Photo History project. This is a photocopy of the original sale…

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January 7, 2019
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Info required: Arthur & Arthur photo agency London 1940’s

By Will Carleton | Will Carleton | No Comments

This in from a UK museum …”The photograph was most likely taken in early 1941 and is stamped ‘Arthur & Arthur, 36 Strand, London WC2’, which we presume to be…

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January 2, 2019
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Sport and General staff photo 1977 – recognise anyone?

By Will Carleton | Will Carleton | No Comments

Retired picture editor Dave Ofield has been going through his industry photo albums and sent us this shot of the staff of the Sport & General “Will, photo taken around…

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December 13, 2018
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Image search request: Albert Landau of Transworld Features

By Will Carleton | Will Carleton | No Comments

A request just in: Hello,….Can you help me please ? I’m looking for a photo of Albert Landau of Transworld Features Syndicate and Marvel Comics. • Answers on an email please…

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December 5, 2018
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Photographer Search: Photographer search: Dave “Flash” Gordon and ‘JH’

By Will Carleton | Will Carleton | No Comments

This in from a PAN reader trying to trace a couple of photographers, answers on an email please:  will@pressphotohistory.com ‘We are attempting to identify a photographer who took a photograph of…

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November 22, 2018
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New service: Tracing ‘unfindable’ photo copyrights

By Will Carleton | Will Carleton | No Comments

Are you looking to clear a copyright on a photograph and all you have to go on is the agency stamp on the back of a print? ….and a Google…

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The Project

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

Image requests: While we research 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.

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 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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