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A unique way of viewing images from our 12 million strong library including vintage and newly discovered shots. Examples include a commemorative CD marking the Queen's 80th birthday, collections of Snowdon, Clive Arrowsmith, Elio Sorci, Karsh and Edward Quinn images and a selection of major royal retrospectives.
  
High profile photographer Clive Arrowsmith has been shooting fashion and portraits for over 3  decades. His images have adorned the pages  of all the leading publications, including Vogue, Harpers, Esquire and The Sunday Times Magazine. He  photographed the  prestigious Pirelli Calendar two years running. Wings, Bowie and Twiggy were among his earlier sitters;  more recent high profile shoots have been with Girls Aloud, Kelly Brook, Jerry Hall and Jeremy Irons. He joined Camera Press over a decade ago and continues to contribute new shoots, building on his impressive archive tally. He was most recently seen on the small screen behind the camera on Britain's Next Top Model. He has also directed a number of music and advertising videos.
  

Camera Press UK Ltd have been supplying the cream of work by Lord Snowdon in the UK and all over the world for more than 50 years and the acquisition of his entire archive in recent years, has confirmed the close relationship we have maintained with one of our top-selling photographers. Now, in addition to the hundreds of sets available through the library there is a profusion of wonderful work that we are able to access and syndicate quicker than ever before. The editorial value of the archive is immense. From the start of his career in 1950 Snowdon has amassed thousands of photographs of eminent writers; artists; dancers; actors; politicians; sportsmen and women; professionals; nobility and Royalty and continues to work on commissions today.

  

Yousuf Karsh created one of the world's most famous portraits when he photographed Winston Churchill in 1941. The shot appeared on the cover of Life magazine and established Karsh as an eminent portrait photographer. He soon became the leading portrait photographer of his generation, whose distinctive work was constantly in demand. Karsh was the first photographer recruited to Camera Press by Tom Blau in 1947 and the two men enjoyed a life-long friendship. Karsh was born in Armenia in 1908 and moved to Quebec at the age of 16, where he won his first photography prize in a school competition. His work includes unforgettable portraits of the great and the good, from presidents and prime ministers to royals and Hollywood stars. Yousuf Karsh died in 2002 at the age of 93.
Karsh photographs are available exclusively from Camera Press.

  
As the Sixties swung and Britain subverted the old order, photographer Philip Townsend was there to record all the prime people of the time the press barons and business moguls, stars and socialites, and above all the new aristocrats of pop and rock, spearheaded by the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Townsend’s entire photographic career exactly spanned that most remarkable of decades, when London was the coolest of capital cities: he took his first serious pictures in 1960 then, in 1970, he put away his cameras for good and casually consigned his pictures to a cupboard. When he looked at them seriously a few years ago, he found a half-forgotten treasure trove. The rescued works are now sought by magazines and newspapers throughout the world, by galleries like the National Portrait Gallery, and by collectors. The reason is simple: Philip Townsend’s pictures are the Sixties.
  
Irish photographer Edward Quinn was born in 1920 and spent much of his working life on the French Riviera. His classic pictures captured the lives of the top celebrities at work and play in the 1950s, enjoying the sunshine at the fledgling Cannes Film Festival. His portraits of screen legends such as Brigitte Bardot, Grace Kelly and Sophia Loren illustrate the atmosphere of a glamorous and exciting era. Quinn died in 1997, having spent the last 5 years of his life in Switzerland.
 
Images from one of the world's first paparazzi are available from Camera Press. In conjunction with Italian agency Photo Masi, we are digitising the archive of photographer Elio Sorci. He captured the spirit of the Dolce Vita with his pictures of Italian and international celebrities in Rome during the 1950s and 1960s. Some of the treasures discovered so far include Claudia Cardinale doing the housework, Anita Ekberg at the wheel of her car and Audrey Hepburn walking her dog. We are happy to scan on demand for clients with specific requests.