Originally posted on the PACA Blog Grant Heilman passed away on Tuesday, February 25 at his home in Buena Vista, Colorado, following a brief illness. He was born in 1919, in Tarentum, Pennsylvania. He had a wonderful small town bringing up, and loved small town living his entire life. He could stand large cities for …
Michael Masterson and I were speaking about the history of our industry. Again and again, one name came up as a leader and advocate for all things stock photography. And as a result, I asked Michael to interview Cathy Aron. Cathy Aron has been the Executive Director of PACA, the Digital Licensing Media Association, since …
Universal Newsreel showing footage of the launch of a Titan II rocket in 1963 along with images from the unmanned capsule of the first stage being dropped. Beneath the falling debris of the discarded first stage the curvature of the earth is clearly visible: “Through the magic of the camera earthlings take their first ride …
by Julian Jackson Colin Garratt is a man with a mission. He has spent his lifetime photographing steam trains, trying to preserve these magnificent machines on film before they vanish into history and become as strange, remote, and incomprehensible as the penny farthing bicycle. In 1969 he threw in his steady job, to become a …
Guest post by contributor Julian Jackson Lewis Morley, who died in September at 88 in Australia, was a British photographer who photographed many of the stars of the 1960s – the “Swinging Sixties” – including actors like Michael Caine, Susannah York and Charlotte Rampling, models Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy, and comedians such as Barry Humphreys. …
by Ellen Herbert My step-dad will be 90 years old in a few months. He is the son of homesteaders, a finish carpenter known throughout the South for his lovingly crafted rocking chairs and birdboxes, a WWII decorated Veteran, a farmer and rancher. And a much loved husband and father. His pear preserves are un-paralleled, …
Just found this wonderful doc on Vimeo from BBC Four. Fitting, especially in view of the recent layoffs at the Chicago Sun-Times. From the BBC Four description: Life was an iconic weekly magazine that specialized in extraordinarily vivid photojournalism. Through its most dynamic decades, – the 40s, 50s and 60s – Life caught the spirit …