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As part of an ongoing project at Photo Archive News we have been mapping the photo agencies and photographers who worked in and around Fleet Street. We aim to produce a 'family tree' to include dates, names and 'where-are-they-now' information to preserve and highlight the press photography industry - from the beginning. This information will be used to help find original owners of content and provide an educational resource centered on the history of press photography. Some agencies and press photographers are still located close to the famous street, but most collections have been sold into larger companies or have just disappeared.
Photo Archive News has already been involved in reuniting press photographers with their photographs particularly where a photographer was a staff photographer working for a fleet street photo agency. We have mapped the path of many newspaper photo libraries, many of them having been split between various owners over the years. Many sections of the photographic archives of newspapers and agencies are still lost or, in one case we know about, buried under tonnes of concrete!
The work will be ongoing, presented via a website and a book is planned.
We are now seeking:
- Project sponsors.
- Early press photographic equipment particularly telegraphic transfer machines.
- Stills and Footage of working photo agencies or newspaper picture desks.
- Signs, stationary, day books, press cards, written company details, staff lists, expenses forms, travel information.
- Press Prints with agency/photographer stamps on reverse.
- Photographer memories.
- A Fleet Street premises.
- Photo agency timelines (history), photographers names and acquired brands.
Services offered by the project - available NOW:
- Preserve or buy collections at risk or offered for sale.
- Photographic collection valuation.
- Photographic collection sales and acquisitions.
- Advice on storing negatives and prints.
- Advice on scanning and digital storage.
- Locating lost images - negative and print.
- Press Photo History magazine - quarterly.
To register your agency and for more info on the project contact Will Carleton tel: 07802 437827 - will@photoarchivenews.com
Posted by Will Carleton