Photographer. Born in Quebec, Canada. He immigrated with his mother and several sisters to Fall River, Massachusetts after his father died an early and tragic death. Philip worked as a bookkeeper and stenographer to help support his remaining family. Later, he left home and traveled the world on merchant ships taking photographs in many European and Mediterranean cities. He started the Philip D Gendreau Press Illustration Service in the 1920s and eventually operated out of his New York City studio between the 1930s and 1950s. He created many photographic illustrations of the people, places, and the icons of New York City. Many of his photos appear in mid 20th century textbooks, newspapers, and periodicals such as the New York Times and Life magazine. The Philip D Gendreau Collection of Americana with approximately 200,000 images (many in color) was sold to Otto Bettmann in 1967. A succession of sales and multi-million dollar acquisitions occured over the next 50 years. In 1981, Bettman sold 500 million items to Krause-Thomas Archive. In 1995, the Krause-Thomas Archive which included 11.5 million artifacts from United Press International and Reuters libraries alone, was purchased by Corbis (founded by Bill Gates in 1989). In 2016, Corbis sold it’s image licensing business to Unity Glory an affiliate to Visual China Group (VCG) that has an exclusively license distribution of the Corbis images library outside China through a Corbis rival. As of 2018, Philip Gendreau collection currently reside with Getty Images, the American stock photo agency. Several of his photos can still be seen today just by searching his name on the internet.
Photographer. Born in Quebec, Canada. He immigrated with his mother and several sisters to Fall River, Massachusetts after his father died an early and tragic death. Philip worked as a bookkeeper and stenographer to help support his remaining family. Later, he left home and traveled the world on merchant ships taking photographs in many European and Mediterranean cities. He started the Philip D Gendreau Press Illustration Service in the 1920s and eventually operated out of his New York City studio between the 1930s and 1950s. He created many photographic illustrations of the people, places, and the icons of New York City. Many of his photos appear in mid 20th century textbooks, newspapers, and periodicals such as the New York Times and Life magazine. The Philip D Gendreau Collection of Americana with approximately 200,000 images (many in color) was sold to Otto Bettmann in 1967. A succession of sales and multi-million dollar acquisitions occured over the next 50 years. In 1981, Bettman sold 500 million items to Krause-Thomas Archive. In 1995, the Krause-Thomas Archive which included 11.5 million artifacts from United Press International and Reuters libraries alone, was purchased by Corbis (founded by Bill Gates in 1989). In 2016, Corbis sold it’s image licensing business to Unity Glory an affiliate to Visual China Group (VCG) that has an exclusively license distribution of the Corbis images library outside China through a Corbis rival. As of 2018, Philip Gendreau collection currently reside with Getty Images, the American stock photo agency. Several of his photos can still be seen today just by searching his name on the internet.
Family Members
Sponsored by Ancestry
Advertisement
Advertisement
