| UrbanImage / About us |
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| is the beginning of an evolution of accessible digital photographic archives. |
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Reggae and its culture: The complete story from the battles of the sound systems through to ska and dub, rockers, Rasta and dancehall. Perhaps the best reggae photo archive available on-line or anywhere else. |
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Punk and its Progeny: The definitive visual history of the explosion of an anti-culture, featuring iconic photos of the Clash, the Sex Pistols and many more... |
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Black Music US/UK: From soul and funk heroes to jungle and grime. |
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70's and 80's rock: One hit wonders, superstars, acid casualties and fashion victims. They're all here and some you haven't heard of too. |
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World music: Features the Afro-pop revolution of the 70's, 80's and 90's (see, especially, Fela Kuti) as well as leading musicians from India, Latin America and the rest of the globe. |
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Travel and culture: An expanding archive featuring images ranging from Africa, India, South America and Jamaica to the Middle East. |
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London: A new section with images of 50's to present Black Britain, street photography and the 21st Century multicultural capital. |
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| Our archive contains the cream of some of the most talented photographers working today. |
| Please click here for more information on our photographers |
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| License images, artwork and texture from the UrbanImage archive for editorial, advertising, merchandising and all other professional uses. |
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| Search: |
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| Click here to search or click here to browse our growing online archive of captioned images. |
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| UrbanImage is presently offering free image searches: Telephone us to discuss your project and we will select images for you. |
| Please click here for our contact details |
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| If you cannot find what you are looking, please bear in mind that a significant percentage of our content is not yet online: An UrbanImage researcher will always be glad to search our offline archive for you. |
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| Supply: |
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| Images are usually supplied digitally (RGB TIF or JPG) as email attachments or on CDROM via courier. However we can supply images in a format that suits each individual client, including traditional and digital prints. |
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| Digital images are normally emailed or dispatched on the same day that they are requested. |
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| All images are scanned using Imacon Precision Scanners to a maximum resolution of 150 MB. All high resolution images are retouched to an extremely high standard. |
