Sarah Fix, Creative Director of Blend Images and current President of PACA/DMLA, pulls from a wide pool for her creative muse. My go to sources for inspiration are: Kinfolk Magazine, Monocle magazine, Zite app., and I know this sounds like a shameless plug but the Blend Images blog has fine art contributors that have daily …
Another new user content community aims to change the way we use visual materials found online. And this one has put the ubiquitous hashtag front and center. Guest post by Jain Lemos. “We want to become the largest market for social media content,” says Olga Egorsheva, co-founder and CEO of Lobster IT Limited. Her London-based …
by Julian Jackson The Ronald Grant Archive is one of the best privately-held collections of cinema images in the world today. Founded in 1971 along with its sibling The Cinema Museum in 1984, it covers the history of cinema. In its temperature-controlled vaults lie over 1 million images from the beginning of the movies in …
Guest post by Sheridan Stancliff. Some may argue that there is already a flood of imagery available in the stock photography market with collections such as Getty images, Corbis, and Alamy hosting millions of images. There are still, however, some topics that are not being well represented by the “big boys” for various reasons and …
If you haven’t spent time lately navigating the collections of the Digital Public Library of America, now is a great time to revisit this fabulous content resource. Guest post by Jain Lemos Headquartered within the Boston Public Library, the DPLA’s online experience for researchers couldn’t be better, but hanging out there is time consuming. That’s …
by Julian Jackson Rex Features is a fixture of the British media industry. It celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. Founded in a front room in 1954 by husband-and-wife team Frank and Elizabeth Selby, it has provided news, celebrity and royal imagery globally for six decades, in the process turning into a global media operation, …
Delighted to find out about the Photographic Archives at the Grand Ole Opry. Simon Herbert chatted with Curator Brenda Colladay recently. In the current Grand Ole Opry theater, there is a six-foot square of wood cut from the home’s main original home, the Ryman Auditorium, which was home to an iconic range of musical stars …
By Pat Hunt What is a disability? Can anyone really offer a comprehensive list of every issue that is likely to manifest as a disability? There are attempts to do this in government, but that list hardly reflects the entire human condition. In commercial imagery, there seems to be a need to put someone into …
by Julian Jackson Retrograph www.retrograph.com is a photo agency which curates design work from the past. It is a treasury of over a hundred years of publicity images. Director David Bull, says, “The Retrograph collection is a visual feast of classic graphic design images spanning 100 years of retrospective publicity work, from the mid eighteen …
Alan Capel explains how their new app is driving sales and delivering the look advertisers demand. Guest post by Jain Lemos Nearly gone are the days of taking snaps with cell phones just to share them with our followers. Today, dozens of tech companies are promising to fulfill dreams of becoming a professional creative by …