Photo Archive News reports: Hot on the purchase of celebrity photo agencies LFI and Idols, Photoshot have bought interiors lifestyle photo library Red Cover. Red Cover went into administration a…
A PPHP reader has asked: Please could you let me know who owns the London Daily News photographic archive? Answer from Chris at News Int : The London Daily News…
This in from a researcher at Université Paris 1/Sorbonne: “I am a nautical archaeologist and author and would like to contact whoever owns the copyrights of the former London Electrotype…
On March 2 1922 The Times newspaper (London) printed it’s first Picture Page, as opposed to occasional photographs. At 8AM on March 1 Northcliffe telephoned UV Bogaerde, ordering him to…
Photo: Horace Joseph Hall This is a photo sent in following our search for Horace Joseph Hall: Manager At Sport & General – Jog a memory? – contact us now:…
This note in from a member of the public trying to trace what happened to his grandfather during the 2nd world war. He was working as Manager at Sport &…
If you know who holds the images of the Midland Press Agency in Birmingham please contact the PPHP – a reader is looking for particular photos from 1961.
Welcome to the official site of the Press Photo History Project. For those of you arriving from our previous site – hello again! – all the content and research articles…
Jimmy Horton, photographer and founder of the UK’s number one specialist criminal and courts photo agency, Photo News, passed away in January 2003 aged 41. Jimmy started Photo News…
Terry Smith who owned UK based photo agency -Universal Pictorial Press Agency (UPPA)- until its sale to Photoshot in 2002 has died aged 74. He died on Monday 17 January…