This is mainly pictures of artists, photographers made Harry Shunk and Janos Kender from 1958 to 1973. This collection of photographs was distributed between the Getty Museum, the Tate, the Centre Pompidou, MoMA and the Washington National Gallery

Roy Lichtenstein Foundation presented the 200,000 images from its collection of five cultural institutions around the world - the Getty Museum in Los Angeles , the Pompidou Center in Paris, the MoMA in New York , the National Gallery in Washington and the gallery Tate in London.

This collection consists of photographic images of the late Harry photographers Schank (Harry Shunk) and Janos Kender (Janos Kender), created in the period from 1958 to 1973 . This photos of famous artists and other cultural figures of the era - Christo and Jeanne -Claude , Merce Cunningham , Robert Rauschenberg , Alexander Calder and others. After Harry's death in 2006 Schrank Foundation Liechtenstein gradually in 2008-2012 , bought his pictures .

The largest portion of images and related materials ( 183,000 items ) will get the Getty Museum . Vintage photos will arrive in Los Angeles in the next two months , the rest ( negatives , etc.) will deliver to the end of June next year. About 10,000 units will receive the Pompidou Centre and the National Gallery in Washington will move all the images associated with the artist Christo Yavashevym - about 2,300 photographs. Liechtenstein Foundation noted that all institutions , recipients will be able to work with the images of each other.

Prepared by Mary Onuchina , AI

Sources : latimes.com , artinvestment.ru