Archive of Modern Conflict (AMC) is an organisation and independent publisher based in Holland Park, London, England.
[1] AMC was established in the early 1990s and maintains an archive of vernacular material relating to the history of war,[2] primarily photographs but also manuscripts and objects.
It has published numerous books, some of which have won awards, has curated exhibitions worldwide drawing upon its archive,[3] and collaborated with artists.
The archive primarily contains photographs from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, both national and international, totalling some 4 million items of professional and amateur photography:[1][3][4][5] snapshots and throwaways, amateur and anonymous, across eras and ages, media and material;[3] discarded personal albums, press photos and entire photographic archives from defunct institutions and publications.
[1] In 2012, AMC acquired the Matthew R. Isenburg Collection of 20,000 items including daguerreotypes, stereoviews, early cameras and other material at a cost of $15 million (US).