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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.
Company founder Edward Anthony, a Columbia College trained civil engineer who had studied photography with Samuel F.B Morse, started in the photography business in 1842 by opening a daguerreotype gallery in New York. Five years later he opened a separate shop devoted exclusively to photographic supplies and as sales grew rapidly ceased ...
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 ...
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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.
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 ...
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...
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]