Collection Spotlight: Underwood Archives

UIG contributing partner Underwood Archives offers researchers a vintage and historic glimpse into America’s past.  The collection includes thousands of images of politicians, entertainers, and other notables from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  The Underwood archive offers a peak at the daily lives of Americans in years gone by, humorous images from a simpler time, […]

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Tightrope Walking over Niagara

By Francesca Lungarotti The art of the tightrope walker has its roots in history.  The presence of ancient Roman frescoes depicting tightrope-walking fauns in Cicero’s Villa in Pompeii already takes us back in time to a profession and an art that lives in balance between fantasy and reality, given its enormous risk.  The challenge of not […]

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Spotlight on Long Visual Press

Long Visual Press, founded in 2021, is an established photojournalism and photo agency based in Bogota, Colombia. The agency represents 20 photographers across Colombia and internationally in the USA and Portugal. Covering the geopolitically important country of Colombia, the agency and its photographers have added more than nine thousand images to the worldwide market since […]

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UN declares 21 November is World Television Day

‘World Television Day is not so much a celebration of the tool, but rather the philosophy which it represents. Television represents a symbol for communication and globalization in the contemporary world.’ – United Nations Television has the power to inform, entertain the masses and through advertising – the means to market products for us to […]

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