To mark its 20th anniversary, stock library Getty Images is set to release a retrospective of its photographers' most memorable images.
Getty Images has launched its Legacy Collection, a retrospective assembly of the stock library’s most ground-breaking and memorable images from across a wide range of genres. The collection, launched to celebrate Getty Images 20 years in business, will be released in weekly sets of 15 to 20 images, with the first set of images now available on the Getty Images app.
In its 20th anniversary year Getty Images will aim to show an ongoing selection of its finest images, and will tell the stories behind them. The images will come from news, sport, entertainment, archival, reportage, and creative areas. Viewers can discover the story behind these images with behind-the-scenes interviews and videos with world-class photographers also featuring in-app.
Getty Images’ global team of editorial, archival and creative image experts collaborated to select 200 images from its collection of almost 200 million assets. Jonathon Klein, co-founder and CEO of Getty Images, said, “Over the last 20 years I have been privileged to bear witness to the defining images featured in the Legacy Collection, and to work with the remarkable photographers responsible for documenting the world’s most important moments. Many of them have contributed to this collection - and had an opinion about it!”
Images appearing from a range of categories will include photojournalist Brent Stirton’s iconic shot of a dead Silverback gorilla being transported out of a jungle by an anti-poaching unit (which has been used to raise funds for the preservation of the animals), singer Michael Jackson’s last rehearsal in 2009, and Prince Charles kissing his new wife Diana.
The collection is being released in weekly sets of 15-20 images, with the first set of images available now via the Getty Images iOS app.
A deceased gorilla is carried through the jungle. Brent Stirton/Getty Images.
Grant Hackett swimming in North Sydney pool. Adam Pretty/Getty Images.
A man cover in debris in Haiti. Shaul Schwarz/Getty Images.
Pelican covered in oil on the Louisiana coast in 2010, after an offshore oil spill. Win Mcnamee/Getty Images.