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Project website and continued research

By Will CarletonUncategorized

I am looking for a sponsor to help with costs towards the website build and continued research we are undertaking at the British Library. Will@photoarchivenews.com 01233 770044

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December 1, 2010

Two More Major Copyright Trails Successfully Solved

By Will CarletonUncategorized

During November The Press Photo History Project was contacted by various media owners and private collections searching for image copyright holders. Two examples are Kyodo News in Japan who were…

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December 1, 2010

Call To Tender: London Fire Brigade Photo Archive

By Will CarletonUncategorized

A unique opportunity to manage, and financially exploit, a photographic archive of national importance. London Fire Brigade (‘the Brigade’) is seeking a commercial partner to work with them to preserve…

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November 2, 2010

UPDATE: Auction Of Notable Photographs 30 Sept

By Will CarletonUncategorized

Notable Photographs – a Be-Hold Internet AuctionPhotographs will be on view at the Salmagundi Art Club on 5th Avenue in Manhattan from Friday September 24th to before the internet auction…

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September 24, 2010

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
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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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