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There is something incredibly reassuring about looking at stock photographs from the United States in the 1950s. There's a confidence,
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It is not every day that I receive an email with the somewhat surprising opening line "Hello, I am a
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I had to wait a good while to get my hands on Neil McKenna's latest book, Fanny and Stella. By
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akg-images is now very pleased to offer over 17,000 images from our friends at bilwissedition, an incredible historical archive based
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Last year I wrote on the blog about the Another London exhibition at Tate Britain which brought together works by photographers
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"People ask me which camera I used to take my pictures. I always say it doesn’t matter, for a good
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My young niece spent a fair amount of Christmas Day last year blaring out Psy's Gangnam Style as loudly as she
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I almost missed out on a job with akg-images. The post of picture researcher had already been advertised and the
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"A man with a beard is a man with a secret." I vividly remember my late grandfather imparting this pearl
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When did you last write a letter to anyone? A postcard maybe? Most of my own correspondence goes via email
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My sister and my 2 ½ year old niece visited me recently and as they were flying over from the
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"Hello, stranger!" Well, if this blog could speak that's probably what it would have said this morning when I logged
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So, have you decorated your Christmas tree yet? I don't know if it was because the first day of December
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I'm a fan both of bow ties and human rights, so I was very pleased when Jesse Tyler Ferguson announced
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Tony Vaccaro is a very special person. I have always found his photographs extremely appealing and very human and have
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