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Book: Paparazzo – The Elio Sorci Collection

↑ 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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Job: Sales and Licensing Assistant – Barcroft Media

***This ad is now closed*** Position: Sales and Licensing Assistant Description: International content company Barcroft Media are recruiting for a Sales and Licensing Assistant to join the team in their London office Barcroft Media supply editorial content to newspapers, websites and broadcasters in the UK and around the world. In…

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Job: Photographer – National Museums Scotland – 6 month post

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…

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Evevine represents NAR Photos – UK market

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.…

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Upgrade: Capture Desk v.2 – web-based media research tool

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…

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Mary Evans ‘Amazing’ pulp fiction magazine calendar lands at the PAN office

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,…

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Fleet Street photographer Matt Carrington dies aged 44

↑ 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…

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UK Gov: 91 million orphan works ready to license – Apply now

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…

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Help: 250K images need captioning …and it’s not going to be easy

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…