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(ANP) and other press agencies, until it ceased to exist in 1989. It is not to be confused with ''ANP Photo'', the photo department of the ANP.

History

The Anefo agency was started in 1944 by the Bureau Militair Gezag (BMG), the provisional government during

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. Although it started as a government agency, it was privatised soon after the war ended. The purpose of the Anefo was to promote publicity for the government and to form a documentation archive for use by the Dutch Press. Another organization in London, the Regeerings Voorlichtingsdienst (RVD), was also doing similar work, and the two organizations were interrelated. After Belgium was liberated in September 1944 the BMG was moved to Brussels along with the newly formed Anefo. Once the Northern Netherlands were liberated, the Anefo took up quarters in Amsterdam (though Brussels remained active until December 1945). The Anefo Photo archives worked with the

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and

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in 2012 to place 140,000 images on Dutch news events from the period 1959-1989 under a CC-by-SA-license, in order to transfer them to Wikimedia Commons. In 2015 approx. 15,000 of these photographs were uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. In 2018 the number in Commons was well over 260,000 photographs.325,000 images from Dutch photo archives uploaded by Mr.Nostalgic
/ref> Well-known photographers working for Anefo were

Emmy Andriesse Emmy Eugenie Andriesse (14 January 1914, The Hague – 20 February 1953, Amsterdam) was a Dutch photographer best known for her work with the Amsterdam Underground Camera group () during World War II. Early life and education Emmy Andriesse w ...

Charles Breijer Charles Breijer (26 November 1914, The Hague – 18 August 2011, Hilversum) was a Dutch photographer, known as a "resistance photographer," notable especially for the photographs he took during the last year of the German occupation of The Netherl ...

, Ron Kroon,

Fernando Pereira Fernando Pereira (10 May 1950 – 10 July 1985) was a Portuguese-Dutch freelance photographer, who drowned when French intelligence ( DGSE) detonated a bomb and sank the ''Rainbow Warrior'', owned by the environmental organisation Greenpeace o ...

Harry Pot Harry Pot (October 16, 1929 – March 16, 1996) was a Dutch photographer. He was one of the most prolific photographers in the Netherlands. Biography Harry Pot began working for the Dutch press agency Anefo in the early 1950s, He traveled abr ...

and Willem van de Poll. File:Margaret_Thatcher_(1983).jpg,

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(1983)
(Photo Rob Bogaerts -Anefo) File:Stones1982DeKuipMarcelAntonisse.jpg,

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(1982)
(Photo Marcel Antonisse -Anefo) File:Feyenoord_tegen_Ajax_1-0._Nummer_26_Israel_in_duel_met_Cruyff.jpg,

Johan Cruyff Hendrik Johannes Cruijff (25 April 1947 – 24 March 2016), internationally known as Johan Cruyff (), was a Dutch professional Association football, football player and Manager (association football), manager. Regarded as one of the greatest ...

(1967)
(Photo Ron Kroon - Anefo) File:Persconferentie Robert Magabe , president Zimbabwe, op Schiphol na driedaags bez, Bestanddeelnr 932-1958.jpg,

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(1982) Photo: Marcel Antonisse - Anefo) File:Aankomst Islamleider Hazrat Mirza Nasir Ahmad Mash III Schiphol, Bestanddeelnr 920-5027.jpg,

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(1967)
(Photo Ben Merk - Anefo)

References

External links

The photo collection
of Anefo in the

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