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landmarks
Landmarks in the history of photo libraries and rights
agencies include -
- beginnings
- the
golden age
- the
'new journalism'?
- concentration
Context
is provided by the broader communications and media timeline
elsewhere on this site.
beginnings
1895 Bain News Service (US) founded
1901 Underwood & Underwood (US) founded
1909 International News Photos (US) founded
the golden age?
1927 Associated Press (AP) News
Photo Service (US)
1933 Rapho (Rado-Photo) agency established by Charles
Rado
1935 Associated Press Wirephoto network
1936 Bettmann Archive established by Otto Bettmann (1903-1998)
1936 United Press Telephoto service (US)
1938 Edward G Hulton establishes
Hulton Picture Library
1946 Rapho re-established by Raymond Grosset
1947 Magnum cooperative established
1967 Gamma established by Hubert Henrotte, Hughes Vassal
and Raymond Depardon
1967 Bettmann acquires Gendreau Collection
1968 Allsport photo agency founded
the 'new journalism'?
1969 Tony Stone Images founded
1972 Viva established by Martine Franck, Richard Kalvar,
François Hers, Hervé Gloaguen and Claude-Raymond
Dityvon
1972 Bettmann acquires Underwood & Underwood Collection
1973 Sygma news photo agency founded
1977 Rapho acquires Top from Hachette-Realites
1981 Kraus-Thomson acquires Bettmann
1984 acquires United Press International collection (United
Press International, International News Photos, Acme Newspictures
and Pacific & Atlantic)
1986 Vu founded by Christian Caujolles of Libération
1988 BBC sells Hulton to Brian
Deutsch for £1.5m
concentration
1989 Corbis founded by Bill Gates of Microsoft
1994 United Newspapers buys
stock image library Visual Communications Group for £27m
1995 Getty takes 80% stake in Tony Stone Images
1995 Corbis buys Bettmann Archive
1996
Getty floated on Nasdaq with value of US$154m
1996 Getty buys Hulton Deutsch Collection for £8.6m
1997 buys Fabulous Footage for US$2.5m
1997 buys WorldView agency for US$2.7m
1997 buys Gamma Liaison for US$9.4m
1997 buys PhotoDisc
1997 buys Liaison Agency
1997 buys Energy Film Library for US$17.5m
1997 buys Hong Kong-based Profile Photo Library
1998 buys Allsport for £29.4m
1998 buys Fototeca Stone
1998 buys Imageways
1998 buys Australian Image Library and Australian Sporting
Pix
1999 Corbis buys Sygma
1999 Getty buys The Image Bank from Eastman Kodak for
US$183m
1999 Visual Communications Group (VCG) buys Definitive
Stock for US$20m
1999 Getty buys American Royal Arts
1999 buys EyeWire typography and business image collection
for US$32m
1999 buys Online USA
2000 United Business Media sells VCG to Getty for US$225m
2000 Corbis buys Stock Market photo collection
2000 Corbis buys TempSpot sports image collection
2001 Rapho acquired by Hachette-Filipacchi
2002 Corbis buys Sekani moving image collection
2005 Corbis buys Zefa for US$96m
2005 Getty buys US and European operations of Japanese
online photo stock company Amana for US$51m
2006 Corbis buys The Roger Richman Agency
2006 Getty pays US$50m for iStockphoto.com
2006 acquires Ireland-based Pixel Images Holdings (inc
Stockdisc and Stockbyte) for US$135m
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