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Advertisement for Ansco Speedex Film, 1920. The company was founded in 1842 (pre-dating Kodak in the photography business) as E. Anthony & Co. (later E. and H. T. Anthony & Company, when Edward Anthony's brother officially joined the business) and became the Anthony & Scovill Co. in 1901, after a merger with the camera business of Scovill Manufacturing (Connecticut), founded by James Mitchell ...
The International Center of Photography (ICP) is a photography museum and school at 84 Ludlow Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. [1] ICP's photographic collection, reading room, and archives are at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, New Jersey. [2] The organization was founded by Cornell Capa in 1974. [3]
The Frick Art Research Library’s Photoarchive in New York is a study collection of more than 1.5 million photographic reproductions of works of art from the fourth to the mid-twentieth century. It was founded in 1920 by Helen Clay Frick to facilitate object-oriented research.
E. & H. T. Anthony & Company was the largest supplier and distributors of photographic supplies in the United States during the 19th century. [1] The company is notable for capturing various important historical images of the time, including one of the only daguerreotypes taken of 7th President Andrew Jackson.
Magnum Photos is an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices in Paris, New York City, London and Tokyo. It was founded in 1947 in Paris by photographers Robert Capa, David "Chim" Seymour, Maria Eisner, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, William Vandivert, and Rita Vandivert.
B&H Photo Video (also known as B&H Photo and B&H and B&H Foto & Electronics Corporation) is an American photo and video equipment retailer founded in 1973, based in Manhattan, New York City. [1] B&H conducts business primarily through online e-commerce consumer sales and business to business sales, as they only have one retail location.
Sygma (formally known as Agence Presse Sygma or Sygma Photo News) was a French photo agency. [1] Sygma was established in 1973, was acquired by Corbis in 1999, and went bankrupt in 2011. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was one of the largest and leading photo agencies, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] with offices in Paris, London and New York City, and about 500 ...
For a while, the 1967-founded 47th Street Photo, about which tourists with a halting English would mistakenly ask for 47th Street Camera, [6] [7] was a geographically not too distant competitor, but 47th closed a year before Willoughby's celebrated its 100th anniversary.