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The Image Works to Distribute Selections from the George Eastman House Photography Collection |
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Written by The Image Works
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Thursday, 26 April 2007 |
NewswireToday - /newswire/ -
Woodstock, NY, United States, 04/26/2007 - The
Image Works, an independent editorial stock photography agency, enters
into an agreement to distribute select images from the George Eastman
House photography collection.
The Image Works is pleased to announce that it has entered into an
agreement to distribute select images from The George Eastman House
photography collection. The Eastman House is the world’s oldest
photography museum and opened to the public in 1949. Its comprehensive
collection covers photography from its birth to current events. The
Image Works will be focusing on the historical aspects of the George
Eastman archive – both color and b/w.
The George Eastman House photography collection includes more than
400,000 photographic prints, transparencies and negatives dating from
the invention of photography to the present day. The collection
represents the work of more than 14,000 photographers including all the
major figures in the history of the medium. The scope of the collection
includes every photographic process and printing medium employed in the
history of photography. The collection includes one of the largest
collections of daguerreotypes in the world, major collections of early
British and French photographers and important work by many of the
great names in the field.
The Image Works intends to gradually and selectively add material from
the Eastman House photography collection to its archives over the next
6-10 months. “We are very delighted to add this prestigious collection
to our archives,” says Mark Antman, president of The Image Works. “We
feel there is enormous untapped potential for the vintage and archive
imagery that has been so carefully assembled by George Eastman House.”
About George Eastman House
George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
combines the world’s leading collections of photography and film with
the stately pleasures of the landmark Colonial Revival mansion and
gardens that George Eastman called home from 1905 to 1932. The Museum
is a National Historic Landmark. Mr. Eastman, the founder of Eastman
Kodak Company, is heralded as the father of modern photography and the
inventor of motion picture film. World-renowned for its photograph and
motion picture archives, the Museum is also a leader in film
preservation and photograph conservation, educating the top archivists
and conservators from around the world.
About The Image Works
The Image Works (theimageworks.com)
is an independent editorial stock photography agency that has unified
numerous photographers and specialized collections from around the
world into one impressive archive. Their images come from different
sources: top-notch photojournalists, a network of affiliated agencies,
specialized collections, museums and newspapers. Spanning both
historical and contemporary material, the result is an incredibly
diverse yet focused collection of over 825,000 images online and
additional access to over 25 million images through their network of
affiliates. The Image Works licenses images to books, magazines,
documentary films, advertisers, and other media.
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