Journalism

Affaire Corbis-Sygma

736 rolls of film by Gilles Caron rediscovered

Dernière révision le 18 janvier 2012 à 1555 par Michel PuechMichel Puech publie dans La lettre de la photographie, lettre quotidienne en français et en anglais.

  Tuesday, May 25, 2010, the Commercial Court of Paris pronounced the liquidation of the Corbis Sygma corporation. Counselor Gorrias had been appointed liquidator and had taken over the wreckage of the press agency created by Hubert Henrotte in 1973 and then bought by Bill Gates in 1999. Nine month later, millions of photographs were in jeopardy of destruction…Until all of a sudden 736 rolls of film from the mythical photographer from Gamma Agency reappear in the courts!

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