The first fifty years of editorial stock photography were lean years for photographers.
Few photographers imagined their photos were worth much more than the immediate compensation they received from a magazine, book publisher or assignment client.
In addition, to save filing space, many photographers threw out extra "baggage" of "outdated" images. Little did they realize they were tossing away a gold mine.
In the early days, some photographers had special agreements with their publishers or newspaper and magazine editors that ownership of the photos bought, could revert back to them (the photographers) after three years. In some cases it was a shorter period of time. (This was in the days before the revision of the
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