akg-images the rights managed photo archive specialising in history, fine art and photography will have a new Managing Director at it’s London office from Friday August 21. Current Managing Director David Price-Hughes is leaving the archive ‘to pursue other business opportunities within the industry’ and Angelika Pirkl (above) who has…
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Another Planet News photo search on our Press Photo History Project…
Congrats to Paul Brown (above in action) MD at Mary Evans Picture Library and Ardea who landed another of his personal photo assignments “Rabbit Island” on three UK national newspaper websites this week …scroll down for links to the those. Paul, just back from Japan, told PhotoArchiveNews.com: “Tucked away off…
Newsreel archive British Pathé has appointed BBC veteran Zoe Moore Business Development Manager with responsibility for clients in the UK, Europe and Asia. She will license footage from British Pathé’s collection of 85,000 films. Full details on our FootageNews.com site…
With $2.2 million in support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and in partnership with Artstor, the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) is offering 42 liberal arts colleges and universities the opportunity to join its Consortium on Digital Resources for Teaching and Research. The Consortium intends to improve teaching and…
This in from a PPHP visitor – journalist Russell Hays – who is looking to clear copyrights on a motor industry book. He is currently clearing material with Mirrorpix, Topfoto, LAT and Fox Photos but needs help locating an agency called Tella or Brook Tella which operated during the 1930’s…
Photo: Mirror photographer Monte Fresco in the Azteca Stadium – 1970 World Cup tournament in Mexico. May 1970. Self portrait © Mirrorpix – click the image to view Monte’s images The Royal Mint is looking for the next face of the £20 note and Mirror newspaper photographer photographer Monte Fresco…
Scott Braut as head of content to drive overall content strategy and operations for its Creative Cloud business. Scott was Vice President, Content at Shutterstock and Offset for the last three years where he led content strategy, content growth, operations, contributor marketing, service and IP compliance (marketplace trust and integrity)…
Ikon Images is now representing the work of artist Michael Frith best know for his work in The Times & Sunday Times as well as being exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery.…
Photo share-and-license platform 500px (founded in 2004) has secured $13M of fresh funding reportedly from China photo giant Visual China Group. 500px founder Evgeny Tchebotarev in a blog post about the news says: …”Now, with fresh funds in the bank, you can trust that the 500px Team has the Community…
Photo: Two smiling girls (aided by an old man) play skipping on a deserted Manchester street, strewn with toys and little children. An evocative view of 60s England with terraced housing, close-knit communities, the local cornershop and not a car in sight! Photograph by Shirley Baker Date: 1968 this in…
The BBC reports on the Financial Times sale…
The Associated Press and British Movietone, one of the world’s most comprehensive newsreel archives, are together bringing more than 1 million minutes of digitised film footage to YouTube. …full story and clips on FootageNews.com now…
Above: Returning from a round of Saturday jobs in 1961 with a top hat purchased for one shilling. | At a reunion in 2009, forty years after the Evening Mail launch Press photographer Jeff Wright dropped our Press Photo History Project an email after researching press photography in the UK,…
• 3700 footage clips available to search, play and download. • 450,000 stills from Nature Picture Library and Bluegreen Pictures combined on one site, searchable by collection. • Streamlined search and order process with more search options. • Extensive new gallery section showcasing the full range of our collection. •…
Timed to coincide with the National Portrait Gallery Exhibition “Portrait of an Icon” curated by Terence Pepper, and Helen Trompeteler, Lucy Bell Gallery is delighted to present these previously unseen images of Audrey Hepburn, from the archives of George Douglas (exclusively represented for licensing & reproduction by Topfoto.co.uk), and Angela…
We have been waiting for this film to appear – it’s now showing at Curzon Cinemas, booking tickets soon. …’For the last 40 years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever-changing humanity. He has witnessed some of the major events of…
all pics © PhotoArchiveNews.com PAN walked through the Covent Garden old market area this week and spotted a street photo exhibition of photographer Clive Boursnell images from his book ‘Covent Garden, The Fruit, Vegetable And Flower Markets’ – In the late 1960s and early 1970s he shot thousands of photographs…