Photo library giant United Archives in Germany has started scanning their recently acquired photo collection – the archive of celebrity photographer Hartwig “Valdi” Valdmanis.
UA told PAN: ‘Over the next 12 months the 70,000 images from the archive will be scanned to create a digital legacy for Valdi.’
Hartwig Valdmanis began taking photographs at the age of 8. He worked for a while at the Hamburger Morgenpost, as a police reporter, and then as a sports editor and at the Bild newspaper. He worked freelance for many years controlling his own image licensing.
[…] The 2Mn image archive of Berlin based press photo agency Kindermann has been acquired by United Archives.The archive is starting to arrive at UA’s warehouse where they will be edited, scanned and ready for license in the coming months. This is the second archive purchase inside six months by United Archives who bought the Hartwig “Valdi” Valdmanis archive in March. […]