“ The stock photo powerhouse Getty Images is now once again owned by the Getty family from which it received its name. The company announced that the family has acquired a majority stake in the company and will take full control.Getty Images was founded in 1997 by family member Mark Getty and CEO Jonathan Klein after the duo merged their company (Getty Communications) with a company called PhotoDisc. After a decade of strong growth in the stock photo industry, Getty Images was acquired in 2008 for $2.4 billion by the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman. Four years later, Hellman & Friedman put the company up for sale and ended up selling it for $3.3 billion to the private equity firm The Carlyle Group in 2012 _”

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