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For Sale: Robert Capa beach landing images in print – Picture Post 1944

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Capa beach landing images in print – Picture Post 1944 For sale – funds go to the Press Photo History Project Picture Post magazine containing an article about invasion –…

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January 13, 2022

Newspaper and Magazine search service

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Newspaper and Magazine search service for publishers and companies Here at the Press Photo History Project our photo search service* now stretches to be to specific finds for newspaper groups…

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January 12, 2022

Tracing ‘unfindable’ photo collections

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

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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January 6, 2022

New PPHP service: We find pictures published in the press

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

We find photographs from the press: Cars, Boats, Horses, Houses, People and Events. If you are searching for a photographic print of an important historical event or own a famous…

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January 3, 2022

Obituary: Elizabeth Selby co-founder of Rex Features

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Read the full obit on our main industry news site PhotoArchiveNews.com: Obituary: Elizabeth Selby – “old age isn’t for sissies” Elizabeth Selby, who co-founded Rex Features, one of Fleet Street’s…

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December 18, 2021

Press Photographer Bill Smith Remembers: 41 years at Eastern Daily Press – based in Norwich and Ipswich

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Press Photographer Bill Smith remembers: 41 years at Eastern Daily Press – based in Norwich and Ipswich   This just in to the Press Photo History project from Bill Smith…

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December 5, 2021

Search for images: 1953 AC Ace Prototype Car ‘TPL 792’

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

A car owner has commissioned the Press Photo History project to help trace any photos of his newly acquired classic as he intends to write a definitive history. The car…

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August 9, 2021

Photo search service: Classic and prestige cars

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Though our worldwide network of commercial and private photo libraries we are able to track down unseen or lost images of your car. • If you own a car or…

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August 2, 2021

Central Press Photos: Tony Wilson worked there from 1959-61 – here are the Staff he remembers

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Central Press Photos, one of Fleet Street’s biggest and busiest press photo agencies back in the day and the springboard for many long photographic careers,  features regular on the PPHP….

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June 8, 2021

AP celebrate their 175 years of news gathering and photo reporting

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

The photo above has been kindly supplied by Francesca at the Associated Press archives as I wanted to highlight the great history posts they have created to celebrate they agency’s…

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June 7, 2021
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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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