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Photography AGENCE KEYSTONE Atom bomb on Hiroshima. Second world war.A photo of the Japanese city of Hiroshima, a year after dropping the first atom bomb.Height: 21 x 16 cm. Original photography. Condition: good. Worldwide shipping. Keystone Agency. KEYSTONE VIEW COMPANY was founded in 1917 in the United States, a partnership between a Pennsylvania businessman specializing in stereoscopic views and a Hungarian emigrant: Bert Garai, Director of a small press agency, the "PRESS ILLUSTRATIONS SERVICE".In 1918, Bert Garai returned to Europe and chose London to found the first subsidiary of the agency "KEYSTONE".Subsequently, the latter takes over the entire capital and is left alone at the head of KEYSTONE VIEW COMPANY. The success of the agency led him to create an antenna in Berlin and then in Paris in 1927, which he entrusted the direction to his younger brother, Alexandre Garai. In June 1940, the agency took the road of exodus and settled in Vichy, while the German forces occupied the seat of 25, rue Royale. Until 1944, KEYSTONE, who, under the circumstances, took an assumed name, remained at the forefront of the various events taking place in Vichy. Keystone Paris will be the first agency in the world to equip itself with belinos, these devices made for the urgency inherent in the notion of scoop, will gather the most important photographic documentation in Europe. At the end of World War II, the agency relocated its Parisian premises, whose archives were miraculously spared. It was at this time that KEYSTONE became totally independent of the British Mother House. In 1980, KEYSTONE relinquished its activities as a news agency and exploited its documentary fund more and more. The years and the turbulent news of the first three quarters of the century have provided KEYSTONE PARIS with an invaluable archive that can not be found in any other photographic agency. Today the Keystone fund has more than 10 million documents: everyday life, people, political life, the great facts of world history, science and technology, great discoveries, sports, Artistic life, royal families and the unusual.