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akg-images is the exclusive representative of the Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives in the UK. Born in 1923 in Vienna, Lessing has worked for publications such as Life and Paris Match and in 1951 he became a member of the photographers' collective Magnum. As well as being a successful photojournalist, he has spent a lifetime photographing creative works and historical locations. His vast collection comprises over 25,000 colour images covering fine arts, archaeology, religion and architecture, of which the five images below are a mere sample. All of the images and many more are available from akg-images.
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akg2-G63-A1-9 Three participants in a footrace at the Panathenaic Games. Black-figured amphora, a prize for the winners. The obverse side shows Athena between two columns on which perch two cocks. Musee Vivenel, Compiegne, France Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing |
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| akg2-M120-A12-1 Atlas Farnese. Atlas carrying the cosmic globe on his shoulders. Marble figure (late Roman Period, 3rd CE). Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples, Italy |
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akg2-G76-G1-1-1 Ladies offering a lemon and a mandragora root to another lady during a banquet. Detail of a wallpainting in the tomb of Nakht, scribe and priest under Pharaoh Thutmosis IV (18th Dynasty, 16th-14th BCE),in the cemetery of Sheikh Abd al-Qurnah. Tombs of Nobles, Luxor-Thebes, Egypt Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing |
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| akg1IT-1751-A1557 Bronzino (1503-1572) Portrait of Maria de' Medici, daughter of Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and of Eleonora of Toledo, circa 1557 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing |
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akg3-K72-A2 Klimt, Gustav (1862-1918) Sunflowers - Sonnenblumen. Oil on canvas (1912) Oesterreichische Galerie im Belvedere, Vienna, Austria Photo: akg-images / Erich Lessing |