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The Klemantaski Collection consists of over 500,000 motor
racing and related automotive photographs and is one of the largest and most varied libraries of its kind
anywhere in the world. The Collection is based on two major archives. The first
includes all of the motor racing images taken by the famous photographer Louis Klemantaski
during his long and active career from 1936-1974. There are some 60,000 Klemantaski
images in the Collection. Most of these are black and white, but there are a significant
number of photos in color, including some from the prewar Grand Prix events.
The second archive incorporates
the motor racing photographs of the highly respected Nigel Snowdon who, with his
wife Diana Burnett, photographed many of the Grand Prix and International
Sports Car races from the early 1960's onward. The Snowdon archive numbers approximately
200,000 images, of which some 50,000 are in color, and covers the period 1961-1987.
We also have several smaller archives,
including the famous Modena-based work of Peter Coltrin and archives of the well-known
English motorsports photographers Edward Eves, T. C. March, Alan R. Smith, and Colin
Waldeck. We also own the motor racing work of the respected American photojournalist and author Robert
Daley, the photography of the famous Mercedes-Benz press relations chief
Günther Molter, two archives closely associated with the annual publication Automobile Year, those of
Ami Guichard and Yves Debraine, the Canadian photography of Jack Whorwood, and the Italian work
of Giuliano Orzali as well.
In addition, we have a number of images from
the earliest days of motor racing dating from the end of the 19th Century and including a number
of images from the infamous Paris-Madrid race of 1903.
In addition to supplying photos
to special order, we also carry a limited number of signed prints in various sizes.
These examples of our most important images have achieved a strong following among
photograph collectors around the world.
The Collection also offers a series
of special limited edition books containing our images and supplies images to authors,
publishers and advertisers for reproduction in books, magazines, videotapes and
other media.
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