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Bob Ahern @bobahern.bsky.social · Sep 2

fascinating piece, and going deep into those photo archives @gettyimages.com @latimes.com

Daniel Miller @danielnmiller.bsky.social · Sep 1

In print today: A 95-year-old retired watchmaker has spent a quarter-century trying to uncover the backstory — a possible JFK connection — of a clock he found online in 1999. He had paid just $280. But was it priceless?
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Bob Ahern @bobahern.bsky.social · Jul 28

Legend.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · Jul 28

Michael Ochs, who out of nerdy devotion to rock history preserved ephemera of the music industry seen by many as junk, and who realized belatedly that he had built the world’s leading collection of photos chronicling the modern history of popular music, died in Los Angeles. He was 82.

Michael Ochs, Top Collector of Rock ’n’ Roll Photos, Dies at 82

He surveyed the trash of record companies, haggled with aging photographers and scoured estate sales, building an archive widely seen as unmatched.

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Leon Neal @leonneal.com · Jul 2

A small selection of the people and bands from the Glastonbury Festival 2025. I always try to spend as much time as possible away from the main stage, finding the smaller musical acts and documenting the people who make Glasto so special.

A man wears a wooden deer mask with antlers as he plays the trumpet with the French jazz group Fulu.

Two festival-goers pause for a photo as they walk through the site of the Glastonbury Festival while wearing full military ghillie suits.

The Estonian folk group Duo Ruut are framed by out-of-focus lights as they perform on stage during the Glastonbury Festival.

A man wearing a homemade smoke-emitting hat appears in the darkness as he walks through the site of the Glastonbury festival 2025.

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Bob Ahern @bobahern.bsky.social · May 31

I recall John telling me how he made photos after hopping into Diana Dors’ car at Cannes & ended up at the afterparty. Just a tiny fragment that speaks to another age but his work will stand the test of time. Likewise the incredible staffers at Picture Post. What a time it would have been!

Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · May 31

The documentary photographer John Chillingworth, who has died aged 97, was one of the stable of famous photographic names who worked for the pioneering weekly magazine Picture Post in the 1940s and 50s.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

John Chillingworth obituary

Photographer whose work for Picture Post in the 1940s and 50s documented a period of social change in Britain

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · May 26

Birth of photojournalism explored in new exhibition
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Birth of photojournalism explored in new exhibition

Images of some of the most historic moments of the twentieth century feature in a new exhibition about the photo-magazine, Picture Post (1938-57), which runs at the National Museum Cardiff until the 1...

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · May 12

In huge news, the UK government was just defeated in the House of Lords for a second time over AI & copyright.

The government had removed amendments to the Data Bill that would require AI companies to disclose their training data. The Lords have now reinserted them.

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Getty Images @gettyimages.com · Apr 24

Editors' Choice: The best images from the past 24 hours.

More #EditorsChoice 👉 www.gettyimages.com/collaboratio...

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Leon Neal @leonneal.com · Apr 23

A great opportunity for a young sports photographer in the US. jobs.lever.co/gettyimages/...

Getty Images - Sport Photography Intern

Role: Sport Photography Intern Location: New York Internship Dates: May to February Deadline to Apply: April 23 Who You Are: You are an aspiring professional passionate about visual sport storytelling...

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · Apr 23

The French photographer whose kiss melted hearts around the world
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The French photographer whose kiss melted hearts around the world

A major exhibition will showcase 400 of Robert Doisneau’s enormous archive of 450,000 images, offering ‘a social commentary on a harsh and unforgiving world’

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Bob Ahern @bobahern.bsky.social · Apr 6

I didn’t have making the local news on my bingo card Saturday; (and must confess i did enjoy the quite talented headline) nypost.com/2025/04/05/u...

Heaps of disgusting wet trash turn Brooklyn street into smelly makeshift dump after trash truck fire

Mounds of cardboard boxes, plastic bags, newspapers and other filth appear strewn all over Livingston Street between Nevins Street and Flatbush Avenue in the posts.

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Picturing Black History @pbhosu.bsky.social · Apr 2

Christopher Shell explores how a shared love of baseball fostered a meaningful friendship and a spirit of resistance between Nat King Cole and baseball Legend Orestes Minoso.

#Baseball #NatKingCole #OrestesMinoso #SportsHistory #BlackHistory

Major Players: Nat King Cole Meets Baseball Legend Orestes Minoso - Picturing Black History

How a shared love of baseball fostered a meaningful friendship and a spirit of resistance. This essay explores the history behind a photo of Nat King Cole and Orestes “Minnie” Minoso and it depicts th...

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Getty Images @gettyimages.com · Mar 24

Getty Images 🎥 Video #Highlights of the Week:
From #StPatricksDay to #Trump and Canadian PM #Carney to #princessofwales and Winter #Olympics prep #NCAA, #England training to #Duplicity premiere, #princessofwales #ParkerPosey and more!

Watch #GettyVideo #Bestof 👉 shorturl.at/AVryz

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Richard Baker @bakerpictures.bsky.social · Mar 22

A coffee at ASAP Coffee in Ambleside which has a 1982 Geographic that I once owned and whose story spreads I once knew off by heart before the photography craft really took hold at age 18 #Photography

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Picturing Black History @pbhosu.bsky.social · Mar 17

Want to learn more about the extraordinary legacies of Black women throughout history for #WomensHistoryMonth ? Pick up a copy of our book, Picturing Black History. Our book offers a groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America.

Announcing the Picturing Black History Book!

A groundbreaking collection of photographs and essays that shed new light on the history of Black America, from the Picturing Black History project.

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Bob Ahern @bobahern.bsky.social · Mar 14

Teaming up with F1 for some incredible motorsport history; and thanks B&T mag for the spotlight! @gettyimages.com www.bandt.com.au/getty-images...

Getty Images & F1 Join Forces To Showcase 75 Years Of Racing History

As F1 heats up, Getty Images is celebrating 75-years of trying to snap a pic in the 0.2 second window before they speed away again

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Bob Ahern @bobahern.bsky.social · Mar 6

A cracking edit here; some names you know some you may not; diving through some history with 100 photos from 100 women photographers
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#womenshistorymonth @gettyimages.com

100 Standout Images By Women Photographers Board - Getty Images

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Bob Ahern @bobahern.bsky.social · Mar 5

So thrilled we made the shortlist! And Damarius, Managing Editor AND now style icon! @gettyimages.com

Picturing Black History @pbhosu.bsky.social · Mar 5

Our book, Picturing Black History, has been getting a lot attention. We appreciate it!

Damarius Johnson represented the Picturing Black History team at the NAACP Image Awards reception. Our Book, "Picturing Black History" was nominated for an NAACP Award.

#BlackHistory #NAACPAwards

Damarius Johnson represented the Picturing Black History team at the NAACP Image Awards reception. Our Book, "Picturing Black History" was nominated for an NAACP Award. He is holding a certificate that confirms the nomination.

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · Mar 4

Defender of free speech Vance is going to give Trump such a telling off when he reads this!

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Bob Ahern @bobahern.bsky.social · Feb 25

Resharing some spotlight on the majesty of analog mammoth prints and a body of photographic work that was to help shape the National Parks www.atlasobscura.com/articles/nat... @gettyimages.com

See America's National Parks—Before They Were National Parks

Landscape photography like this helped create the National Park system.

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Bob Ahern @bobahern.bsky.social · Feb 22

Rather super-cool to have our Picturing Black History book on Oprah Daily. #gettyimages

Picturing Black History @pbhosu.bsky.social · Feb 22

Picturing Black History, the book, is featured on Oprah Daily!

#BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

A New Book Highlights Rarely-Seen Photos of Black Triumph, Artistry, and History

Excerpted from a new photography book, Picturing Black History, these unearthed archival images you will see Josephine Baker, Lorraine Hansberry, Jimi Hendrix, and scenes of Black life as you never ha...

www.oprahdaily.com

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Picturing Black History @pbhosu.bsky.social · Feb 18

Preaching peace, yet struck down by violence, the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reshaped America’s urban spaces and fundamentally changed how the country remembers this civil rights leader. Read more from
Hasan Kwame Jeffries on Picturing Black History.

#BlackHistoryMonth #MLK

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Picturing Black History

Preaching peace, yet struck down by violence, the killing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reshaped America’s urban spaces and fundamentally changed how the country remembers this civil rights leader.

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Bob Ahern @bobahern.bsky.social · Feb 15

Majestic tenure @number10cat.bsky.social and here’s some of your best bits from the last 14 years 🐾😻 www.gettyimages.com/collaboratio... 📷 @leonneal.com

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · Feb 15

A special #Caturday this week: today is the 14th anniversary of my arrival on Downing Street.

a cat sitting at a podium with a sign that says isy

ALT: a cat sitting at a podium with a sign that says isy

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Getty Images @gettyimages.com · Feb 13

Editors' Choice: The best images from the past 24 hours.

More #EditorsChoice 👉 www.gettyimages.com/collaboration/boards/TZocjOfk0kqYCv99dSuZWw

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Bob Ahern @bobahern.bsky.social · Feb 1

Beautiful!

Leon Neal @leonneal.com · Feb 1

One of those satisfying jobs I’ve been meaning to do for ages. Primary archive drives for every year I’ve been working in London now safely secured in their own case. A very handy design by Orico. Yes, I know I’m a nerd. #photographyofbluesky

Two rows of hard drives are seen in a flight case.

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