History for sale as SMH archive, valued at $US82m, seeks a home

The Australian
June 27, 2017

It was one of the stranger deals in Australian media, even before it went wrong.

The Sydney Morning Herald photo archive is being touted for sale, four years after Fairfax Media gave it to smooth-talking US businessman John Rogers, in exchange for a promise he would digitise all the images without charge but would retain ownership of the hard copies.

Californian photography dealer Daniel Miller was in Sydney last week trying to raise $10 million for the two million pictures, which date from the turn of last century to the 1990s.

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