Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive
Encyclopedia
The Motion Picture and Television Photo Archive (MPTV) is an archive
collection of celebrity
and entertainment photography
founded by photographer and director Sid Avery
. It currently contains over a million images by over 60 noted photographers, and is one of the largest such archives in the world. MPTV licenses this material for publication, and offers prints for sale.
Archive
An archive is a collection of historical records, or the physical place they are located. Archives contain primary source documents that have accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime, and are kept to show the function of an organization...
collection of celebrity
Celebrity
A celebrity, also referred to as a celeb in popular culture, is a person who has a prominent profile and commands a great degree of public fascination and influence in day-to-day media...
and entertainment photography
Photography
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
founded by photographer and director Sid Avery
Sid Avery
Sid Avery was an American photographer and director who was best known for capturing the private moments of legendary Hollywood celebrities like Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Marlon Brando, Humphrey Bogart and Audrey Hepburn as showcased in his book, "Hollywood at Home."He founded the...
. It currently contains over a million images by over 60 noted photographers, and is one of the largest such archives in the world. MPTV licenses this material for publication, and offers prints for sale.