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Mining your photo collection for marketing and sales

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Now is the time for commercial photo collections to exploit the thousands of analogue images they are all sitting on. From Instagram to email marketing the opportunities are vast both…

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October 5, 2018

Searching for: Reflect agency – Picture Post photo set Grand Prix Spa Belgium 1939

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

A publisher has contacted the Press Photo History Project looking for a photo feature on the racing driver Richard Seaman’s last weekend at the grand prix at Spa in Belgium in…

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August 23, 2018

War censored images – some negatives never made it back to agencies

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

The PPHP just finished a small research project for a member of the public who wanted to trace more images from press shoot in 1943. Hi Will • I wondered…

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August 23, 2018

Searching for: Richard Dormer – 1960’s editorial photographer

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Great detail coming in but still no clear answer on copyright for photographer Richard Dormer here

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August 7, 2018

Copyright tracing with the PPHP

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

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

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July 25, 2018

Photo agency history: Ajax News & Features Service

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

On my main photo industry news site PhotoArchiveNews.com I have started a new series recording photo agency histories …. Ajax in the UK are up first Here

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June 28, 2018

In Memory: Lenny Hanson, Conservator of Hulton Archive

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Lenny Hanson, a conservator at Getty Images’ Hulton Archive facility in East London passed away while on holiday a year ago on the 30 June 2017. He was 60 years…

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June 27, 2018

Fleet St links

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Here as I find them I will list all the Fleet St associated sites I find during my usual PPHP research …and may be of interest to you. Modernist Britain Daily…

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June 16, 2018

Updated: Photographers and Press Photo Agency letters

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

Following the photo agency stamps research I started earlier this year I am now doing the same for photo agency stationary. Early examples seem to be very rare, Fox Photos dated 1941…

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June 9, 2018

Resource: Press Photography In Australia – interviews

By Will CarletonWill Carleton

I had some communication from this project a number of years ago – they were mapping press photographers of Australia running a few interesting interviews.  

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May 11, 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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