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• • 01 March 2012

  • Nominations for Marketing Academy 2012 Scholarships

  • Marketing Hall of Legends (UK), the non-profit organisation responsible for The Marketing Academy are delighted to announce the Nomination Portal for their unique Scholarship Programme is now open.
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• • 13 January 2012

  • One Alfred Place: Social Media & Connecting

  • We at Alfred Place have taken on our social media presence with renewed energy. For regular updates, club news and general commentary please do look us up on Twitter and Facebook. We'd love to see you there!
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• 24 January 2012

• Alfred's Blog:

  Famous Photographs Meet Their Creators

• The Tank Man of Tienanmen Square. Muhammad Ali standing over Sonny Liston in victory. The portrait of the Afghan Girl on the cover of National Geographic. Many of us can automatically recall these photos in our heads, but far fewer can name the photographers who took them. Even fewer know what those photographers look like.
  
  Tim Mantoani hopes to change that by taking portraits of famous photographers holding their most iconic or favorite photos in his new book Behind Photographs
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