Guest post by Julian Jackson Werner Forman was an intrepid photographer, who traveled all over the world to document the greatness of ancient civilizations. During his 75 year career he went into places nobody had been before with a camera, to take stunning visual images. He was the co-author and sole photographer of more than …
Robert Henson, IMGembed’s VP of business development, explains how their pay-per-view licensing tool impacts both the supply and demand side of online publishing. Guest post by Jain Lemos. Permission language and fee negotiations for online image usage tracked by impressions have often been confusing and inconsistent. Last year, IMGembed set out to change that. Now buyers …
May 28, 2014
In no particular order, links of interest to picture buyers/researchers that we have bookmarked for you: Interested in expanding knowledge? Courses in Picture Research: http://www.picture-research-courses.co.uk http://www.publishing-school.co.uk/course-list/2013-picture-research/picture-research.html The Copyright Alliance Podcast . Totally free and full of profiles from artists, photographers, musicians and film makers on copyright and issues around IP. The Metropolitan Museum of Art …
“Photography That’s Good Enough To Eat” by Julian Jackson Winners have been chosen in the international photography competition Pink Lady® Food Photographer of the Year Award 2014. The category sponsored by specialist food images agency StockFood is “Food off the Press” for the best recently published food photograph. Winning photos were chosen in 16 different …
May 7, 2014
Guest post by Pat Hunt Women’s issues continue to be in the news lately. Former U.S. President, Jimmy Carter, has written a book about women. Arianna Huffington has written a book for women. Hillary Clinton discusses women’s issues at a college. General Dynamics appoints a female President and COO. Getty Images continues to promote Sheryl …
April 22, 2014
In honor of Earth Day, we offer this profile on Global Warming Images by Julian Jackson. Ashley Cooper is a photographer with a mission, and it is an important one: to document the effects of climate change on every continent on the planet. Since 2004 when he started, he has visited all of the continents …
March 26, 2014
Guest post by Julian Jackson August 2014 will be the 100th anniversary of one of the most destructive conflicts that has ever taken place: World War One, or the “Great War”, as it was named at the time. Although centered on Europe, battles took place all over the seas and nations as far apart as …
February 26, 2014
Julian Jackson gives us an overview of the PACA equivalent trade organization in the British Isles. BAPLA (British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies) is the UK’s stock photography trade association. It represents over 200 members, including Getty Images and Corbis, but also a lot of small and medium sized photo agencies, which make up …
February 13, 2014
Earlier this week, Getty and Leanin.org announced a partnership whereby Getty donates 10% of license fees to LeanIn.org from sales of this collection: This got us thinking and we wondered about sources of imagery of women, so we compiled a list of resources that we know of and use. When looking for dynamic and diverse …
January 29, 2014
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 …