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landmarks
This chronology is indicative only.
Context is provided by the broader communications and
media timeline and highlights
of the photo agency
industry.
1938 Edward G Hulton launches
Picture Post magazine, establishes Hulton Picture
Library as photo archive
1958 BBC buys Hulton
1968 Allsport photo agency founded
1969 Tony Stone Images founded
1984 BBC buys photo libraries of Express
and Evening Standard newspapers
1987 London Daily Telegraph newspaper sells Telegraph
Collection Library
1988 BBC sells Hulton to cable entrepreneur Brian Deutsch
for £1.5m
1994 United Newspapers buys stock
image library Visual Communications Group for £27m
1995 Getty Investment Holdings takes 80% stake in Tony
Stone Images
1996
Getty Communications floated on Nasdaq with value of US$154m
1996 Carlton buys 10% stake
for £17m
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 Getty Communications buys PhotoDisc of the US and
becomes Getty Images
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 buys The Image Bank from Eastman Kodak for US$183m
1999 buys Art.com for around US$110m
1999 buys Newsmakers
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 Getty buys i/us for US$2.5m
2002 lists on New York Stock Exchange
2003 buys ImageDirect music, entertainment and fashion
photography
2004 announces agreement with Major League Baseball Properties
(MLBP) and Major League Baseball Advanced Media (MLBAM)
to create unified Major League Baseball (MLB) image archive
2005 buys Photonica (US and European operations of leading
Japanese online photo stock company Amana) for US$51m
2006 pays US$50m for iStockphoto.com
2006 acquires Ireland-based Pixel Images Holdings (inc
Stockdisc and Stockbyte, Getty's largest image partner)
for US$135m
2007 buys celebrity photo distributor WireImage (inc MediaVast,
FilmMagic and Contour Photos) for US$200m
2007 acquires The Michael Ochs Archives (music and entertainment
imagery spanning 1940s to 1990s)
2007 buys UK 'citizen journalism' agency Scoopt
2007 buys Pump Audio music-licensing company for US$42.5m
2008 Getty
announces agreement to be acquired by Hellman & Friedman
for US$2.4bn
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