Inside the Getty archive

Courtesy Newsvine - business  Tue, 02/26/2008 - 12:45

Getty's Hulton Archive has been sold to the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman for $2.4 billion (£1.2 billion).

An incomparable record of the twentieth century, it holds about 70 million pictures and 30,000 hours of film footage.


 

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