The Britain from Above project have completed the conservation, digitisation and cataloguing of the earliest 95,000 images in the Aerofilms Collection… …all that’s left to do is identify the caption-less images ‘Since the website was launched in June 2012, we’ve uploaded 1528 unlocated images. Thanks to the hard work of…
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↑ ‘I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here!’ TV Programme, Australia – 16 Nov 2014 Photo by REX In the UK – photo agency REX has united all the regional ITV archives under one roof at their central London headquarters. They say: ‘We have recently taken delivery of the Yorkshire,…
↑ Actor and former boxer Walter Chiari (left) chases after photographer Tazio Secchiaroli (right) along the Via Veneto, Rome, Italy, 1958. Chiari became enraged when Secchiaroli photographed him on a night out with Ava Gardner. The scene was captured by Secchiaroli’s partner, Elio Sorci, in a sequence of pictures that…
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Weekend photo read: ‘PYzine’ – a time-line walk back through youth fashions and the scene of the day
click it ↑ Youth culture photo library PYMCA launched it’s ‘PY-Zine’ last year to flex the depth of the collection – it’s had a good year! The Who, Where, When features are a real time-line walk back through youth fashions and the scene of the day – enjoy the images…
© WARREN DU PREEZ & NICK THORNTON JONES / TRUNK ARCHIVE NY based photo library Trunk Archive are now representing photographers Warren Du Preez & Nick Thornton Jones – for exclusive worldwide image licensing. View the images…
Spotted on the National Museums Scotland site: The National Museums Scotland is looking for a photographer for a 6 month post. The organisation operates four museum sites in Scotland. This fixed term, 6 month post will provide high quality and creative object images for publication, web, research and display in…
click ↑ for all Evelyn Hofer images Getty Images Archive are now representing the work of German-American portrait and documentary photographer Evelyn Hofer (b.1922 d.2009). They say: ‘Described as the most famous unknown photographer in America, Hofer has recently enjoyed a major revival of interest. Her pioneering early colour work,…
Eyevine are now representing images and reportage features from independent photo collective Nar Photos in the UK photo market. Nar are based in Istanbul, Turkey, established in 2003 by photographers for whom documentary photography is a visual tool of “understanding and expressing” the world.…
Shutterstock are continuing their charge in the commercial stock media arena reporting ‘Revenue for the third quarter of 2014 was $83.7 million, a 41% increase from $59.6 million in the third quarter of 2013’. Highlights include: – Third quarter revenue increased 41% from prior year to $83.7 million – Adjusted…
↑ click it Getty Images has announced the UK launch of its first consumer app, Getty Images Stream, enabling users to access, curate and share its vast catalogue of content …easily and legally shareable and embeddable via mobile devices “Our new, free Stream app delivers Getty Images’ stunning news, sport…
Shutterstock have launched Sequence to enable anyone to easily mock up a video by matching video and music from the Shutterstock collection, with footage and audio of their own. They say: Sequence is a lightweight, easy-to-use video editing tool which lives entirely within your Chrome browser window. With Sequence, anyone…
DAM systems provider Capture have release a new version of their web-based media research tool – Capture Desk. They say: dramatically speeds up the media research workflow, as well as providing valuable project and secure rights management tools. Benefits include the following: • Collaborate over projects in real-time; record rights and…
Refreshing approach to the photo library calendar here ↑ from the Mary Evans Picture Library. Their ‘Amazing’ 2015 calendar features vibrant illustrations chosen from their archive of small-format pulp fiction magazine published 1920’s and 1950’s and originally acquired for the library by co-founder Hilary Evans. Titles such as Amazing Stories,…
Updated 6 Nov UK, London, 4th November 2014 – Professionals and amateur photographers have a just few more days to enter their images to the 2014 UK Picture Editors’ Guild Awards sponsored by Nikon, as the deadline for entries is extended until 14th November 2014. The competition seeks to recognise…
↑ Matt Carrington © Nate Jones British photographer Matt Carrington has died this morning in Florida. Matt made an announcement on Facebook last week saying he had been diagnosed with terminal liver disease. He was 44 years old. • This in from Kevin Smith, founder of Splash News: “Splash was…
A new licensing scheme launched by the UK Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, Intellectual Property Office ‘could give wider access to at least 91 million culturally valuable creative works including diaries, photographs, oral history recordings and documentary films.’ They say: These works are covered by copyright, but rights holders…
all photos: © CERN CERN the European Council for Nuclear Research has accumulated about a quarter of a million hard-copy images in its archive and they need captioning. Some 120,000 black and white images from the period 1955-1985 are currently being digitised, with files being uploaded in batches of several…