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		soderfoo 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 45-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shinin... > Instead, Close had sourced the original photo from the BBC Hulton Photo Library in London, now part of Getty Images. That's a bit disappointing if I am reading it correctly. A photo library initially funded by the taxpayers, is now locked down by Getty Images?

jonas21 3 months ago [–]

It was originally a private archive. The BBC acquired it in 1958 and then sold it the '80s. Getty Images acquired it in the '90s.

You can read more about it here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_George_Warris_Hulton

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