Getty Images Gallery

As an official partner with Getty Images Gallery, Electric Gallery has full access to the Getty Images photography archive.

About The Artist

Getty Images Gallery is one of the world's most significant photographic archives, housing over a century of imagery spanning culture, music, sport, politics and celebrity. Drawing on collections including the Hulton Archive, Bettmann and Gamma-Rapho, the gallery represents the work of hundreds of photographers who documented the defining moments and faces of the 20th century.

The prints available through Getty Images Gallery range from candid backstage portraits of Marilyn Monroe and Miles Davis to historic photojournalism and iconic sporting moments. Predominantly shot in black and white, these images carry the visual authority of photographs that genuinely shaped culture. Each print is produced to archival museum quality, offering collectors and specifiers access to imagery with real historical weight and institutional credibility.

As the official home of the Slim Aarons archive, Getty Images Gallery also represents the full breadth of mid-century social photography alongside its broader historical collections.

Curator's Comment:

"Black and white archive photography from Getty Images Gallery is one of the most considered and enduring choices a designer can make. The tonal restraint means these prints sit comfortably within almost any material palette, from cool, minimal schemes with exposed concrete and aged steel through to warmer, more layered interiors with natural stone and rich textiles, without competing for visual attention.

Where they particularly excel is in creating narrative flow across larger wall runs, corridors or stairwells, where a curated series of culturally resonant images can transform a functional circulation space into something genuinely engaging. For hospitality clients especially, the recognisability of the subjects does a lot of the work: guests connect with the imagery immediately, which gives a space warmth and a sense of story that purely decorative art often cannot deliver."

View the Getty Images Collection at Electric Gallery