# @gettyimages on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CFmqUHfgnur
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16445872-gettyimages-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2020-09-26T15:03:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Getty Images (@GettyImages) — https://gondola.cc/GettyImages

## Caption

2020 marks 25 years of Getty Images, although the archives in our care trace a far longer history. Today, gettyarchive explores the Sygma collection.⁠⠀
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Leading the field in photojournalism for the best part of 30 years, French press agency Sygma was renowned for covering significant events & celebrity lives from across the globe. Established in 1973 in Paris by a group of former Gamma photographers, it would build on the archives of Hubert Henrotte, Jean-Pierre & Eliane Laffont, James Andanson, Alain Dejean, Alain Nogues, and Christian Simonpietri, their own handwritten inventories still looked after within the collection.⁠⠀
Opening offices in Los Angeles & New York, Sygma’s prize-winning coverage would encompass conflicts & revolutions, royalty & leaders, and illuminating portraiture of sport & cultural icons.⁠⠀
Having utilised emerging digital technologies since the late 1970s, the Sygma Preservation Project was launched in 2004, with a dedicated team deployed to catalogue, edit & scan the best assets of the collection. ⁠⠀
Today, the Sygma archive represents 35 million glass plates, negatives, prints & slides stretching across 7km of filing space in a state-of-the-art facility. Fifty years of history as seen by more than 400 photographers, it is a powerful testimony to the last half of the 20th century.⁠⠀
Note that our gallery includes upsetting images: a bride posing in Beirut after the Lebanese Civil War; Diana, Princess of Wales, in August 1997; a suspected member of the secret police is arrested in Lisbon during the Carnation Revolution; a man faces a Ku Klux Klan rally in Miami, 1983; Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev & East German President Erich Honecker kiss on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the GDR; David Bowie in 1977; the aftermath of the bombardment of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, 1974; Donald Trump posing in the Trump Taj Mahal casino, 1990; the Paris riots of 1968, and Cuban leader Fidel Castro in Algeria, 1972.⁠⠀
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📷: Christine Spengler l Stephane Cardinale l Henri Bureau l Jean-Louis Atlan l Régis Bossu l Christian Simonpietri l Rick Maiman l Alain Nogues l Sygma/Getty Images l #GettyImages25 #PreservingThePast #GettyArchive #Sygma

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