Images on the move: some notes on the Bibliothek Warburg Bildersammlung (Hamburg) and the Warburg Institute Photographic Collection (London).

This article presents a profile of the photograph collections of the Bibliothek Warburg Bildersammlung of Hamburg, Germany and the Warburg Institute Photographic Collection of London, England in connection to art historian and librarian Aby Warburg. Details are given describing the history of the collection during the 1920s and 1930s, the classification scheme designed for it, and the work of librarian Fritz Saxl in re-ordering the collection after Warburg's death.