Moroni: Portrait of an artist

At university, I kept a dog-eared postcard of Giovan Battista Moroni’s painting ‘The Tailor’ stuck in pride of place on the wall …

Albrecht Dürer, Renaissance man

Ask someone to name a great Renaissance artist, and the answers you’ll hear are most likely Italian: Michelangelo, Raphael, Da Vinci, Botticelli. I …

Experiment: Covers!

“Perfume” by Patrick Süskind Ready Steady… Experiment! At akg-images, a large part of a Picture Researcher’s job is working alongside publishers preparing …

Hercules Bicycle Works, poster © akg-images

Muscle men

As the lights came up in the cinema at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy, I turned to my friend sitting next …

Woman on the telephone, circa 1950 © akg-images / Paul Almasy

Working from home

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” – Blaise Pascal, Pensées With our restless …

Twenty years in London

Last Wednesday, we welcomed some of our friends and clients to the akg offices in London to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of …

Turn around, bright eyes

A week today, the Australian singer/songwriter Sia releases her sixth studio album, 1000 Forms of Fear. You may not recognise Sia’s name, but …

Janelle Monáe performing in the Mojo Club, Hamburg, 20.09.2013, AKG2484575, © akg-images / Jazz Archiv Hamburg

Monochromatic

Last month we shared a photograph on Twitter and Facebook that quickly became our most popular image ever posted on social media. …