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Searching for: Charles K Bowers and Sons photo agency

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

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

Photo agency detail: People in Pictures Ltd

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

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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February 7, 2019

New service: Tracing ‘unfindable’ photo copyrights

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 22, 2019

Tutankhamun dig images – who owns what?

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

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

For Sale: Fox Photo 1976 auction sale catalogue – copies available

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

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 18, 2019

Info required: Arthur & Arthur photo agency London 1940’s

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

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 7, 2019

Image search request: Albert Landau of Transworld Features

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

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 13, 2018

Photographer Search: Photographer search: Dave “Flash” Gordon and ‘JH’

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

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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December 5, 2018

Are the images on your website copyright correct?

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

We just launched a new service  – checking websites for copyright correct images  – here are the details to keep you safe: We do not wish to alarm you, we…

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November 14, 2018

Sun and Mirror photographer George Phillips dies aged 84

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Newspaper photographer George Phillips died on 12 November 2018 – he was 84. …full details and more photos on our photo industry news site PhotoArchiveNews.com

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November 14, 2018
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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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