akg-images | Newsletter March 2011


					Newsletter March 2011

Sophie Scholl

Sophie Scholl, one of the leading members of the Weiße Rose / White Rose resistance movement, was born ninety years ago on 9 May 1921. akg-images is honoured to represent exclusively the photographs of George Wittenstein, surviving member of the anti-Nazi group

Edouard Vuillard at akg-images

Paintings and prints by the glorious Edouard Vuillard are now available on our searchable website.

Own your own Vuillard (print, that is)

Choose a print of your favourite Vuillard and have it framed and delivered to your door with our sister organisation www.akgondemand.com

1950s Britain

The Festival of Britain brought colour and Modernism to Austerity Britain. To mark the 60th anniversary of the festival, we look at 1950s Britain through the collections of Pisarek, Almasy, Francis Frith and Ullstein. And yes, it's not just London!

1870 and all that

The Franco-Prussian War came to an end 140 years ago on 10 May 1871. To mark the anniversary we have put together a selection of different types of images looking at the war and its protagonists.

And one for Mahler!

Gustav Mahler died one hundred years ago on 18 May 1911. Our impressive classical music collection includes lots on the composer, we present a selection.

Napoleon Dynamite

190 years after the death of Napoleon Bonaparte, we're still obsessed by Boney. And no, he didn't die of arsenic poisoning.

Tickle me pink!

Time to put on some rose-tinted glasses and look at pictures of pink!

Look! Russian Look at akg-images

akg-images now represents Russian Look, the picture agency which represents photographers from Russian and the former Soviet Republics.

Not just a pretty voice

With news that The Bodyguard is to be remade we look at those singers who have tried their hand at acting.

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