The European Leader in Cinema, Fine Arts and History online      
 

Photo12 is a picture library with a mission to assemble public and private international collections and make them available for distribution and sale on the internet. Our collections presently include 12 millions images ; over 180 000 ready to see and download in high resolution from our site. Detailed captions. Rights already cleared. Accurate keywords. Expert advice is available from our in-house picture researchers.

 

 
   CINEMA  
We offer the most comprehensive digitised stills archive with over 60,000 photos downloadable in high resolution representing some 15,000 films, from the very early times to nowadays productions. Some 40,000 films are available offline.
Most of our Cinema Collection is available on the IMAGEFORUM website.
 


 
     FINE ARTS
Paintings, sculptures and artefacts from the main European museums
China: monuments, temples, artefacts, paintings and illustrations.
Egyptian art: monuments, sculptures, paintings, artefacts from the Cairo museum, Islamic art.
 


 
   HISTORY  
From Ancient Egypt to the Cold War; digitised documents retracing the main events, portraits of famous people, engraving, photos.
Highlights: the Napoleonic period (over 5,000 digitised documents, most of them exclusive);
The First World War (over 2,000 digitised documents, including exclusive autochroms).
 


 
  CELEBRITIES OF THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES
A number of famous photographers have entrusted us with their archives. The range of personalities goes from pop stars to writers, film directors, painters, etc.