Online bookseller AbeBooks have run a feature titled Rare Japanese Photobooks – They say: ‘The works of prominent Japanese photographers from the past 100 years are now highly collectible. Connoisseurs of photobooks have become familiar with names like Eikoh Hosoe, Kikuji Kawada, and particularly Nobuyoshi Araki and Daido Moriyama.’ ‘Araki…
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Fantastic pic and tweet by Sarah McDonald, Curator at the Getty Images Hulton Archive who tweeted from the archive “Apparently it’s #MuseumSelfie day” attaching the shot above using a print from the files. Follow Sarah @PhotoFramed for more archive insights!…
Congratulations to EMPICS Entertainment contributing photographer Richard Gray who won the ‘Mobile Device Photography’ category in the Terry O’Neill Award last week. Richard’s comments on winning the award were: “It’s great that the Terry O’Neill Awards, which has so much prestige in the photography world, should have decided to create…
Ex Specialist Stock photo library owner Tom Walmsley has posted his first blog post for the Robert Harding photo library blog ‘Out There’ titled Amazon rainforest – respect it or wreck it? The post seems to have had a good response looking at the Likes and comments Tom! Tom now…
Europeana, Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, has launched the second version of its free app. ‘Europeana Open Culture’ introduces the public to hand-picked and beautiful collections from 17 of Europe’s top institutions, and allows people to explore, share, download and comment on them. The app is now available for…
Kent Photo Library (part of Kent Creative Arts) have organised a fundraiser talk with photographer Steve Bloom. They say: ‘Join internationally acclaimed photographer, author and adventurer Steve Bloom as he takes you on an incredible visual journey across Africa. It is staggeringly comprehensive: dynamic wildlife and landscapes from desert to…
In November 2013 stock photo agency Shutterstock released useful stats across the 350 million image downloads from their site. Now they are back with more industry info in the form of the agency’s third-annual Global Design Trends. They say: ‘In the 2014 edition, Shutterstock uses data from over 350 million…
Photo agency Alamy are now providing vector graphics ‘as part of its strategy to provide a full service to image buyers.’ Vectors are scalable and can easily be resized without altering the quality of the image. If you print a vector logo on a small sheet of paper, and then…
David Lynch William S. Burroughs Andy Warhol The Photographers’ Gallery 16-18 Ramillies Street, London W1F 7LW – Until 30 March…
click it ↑ Northern Lights Alaska, USA ©Joseph Classen/Papilio from the Inspirational selection UK world wildlife photo library Papilio have put together a new photo gallery featuring some of latest images from their contributing photographers – ‘a collection of images showing stunning landscapes, through the different season, from around the…
This in from Magnum London: Hi Will, ‘I hope you are well, we’re doing our book covers competition again for best of 2013’. We have selected our top 10 book covers from the UK and US in the last year which feature great images from the Magnum Photos archive. The…
A UK newspaper picture editor is looking to use an image credited to the Murat Akman Archive – if you represent or know the whereabouts of the collection please email [email protected] to sort out licensing.…
This in from the Welcome trust (one of the world’s leading libraries of medical history and the human condition) Library Department: ‘Thousands of years of visual culture made free through Wellcome Images’ Over 100,000 images ranging from ancient medical manuscripts to etchings by artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and…
UPDATED 21 Jan: Very rare footage of Nuba bracelet fighting filmed in 16mm by George Rodger while on assignment in Kordofan, Southern Sudan in 1949. Includes original soundtrack. Edited by Peter Rodger. Just uploaded by Jon on the on the Biography page now A website dedicated to the life and…
Photo library Topfoto have dedicated their opening home page image to an edited gallery of the Beatles touching down in America. They say: ‘The Beatles’ American invasion began when their Boeing 707, Pan Am flight 101, left London Airport early on the morning of 7 February 1964, bound for New…
↑ This shot by photographer Mark Thompson won in the Sports Picture of the Year 2013 category Getty Images held their European Editorial Photography Awards 2013 this week at the agency’s photo gallery in London. They say: ‘The evening is a celebration of the fantastic work that our editorial teams…
Central London based performing arts photo library ArenaPAL has released a rare collection of over 200 postcards and portraits of singers, composers and other popular contemporary artists as part of their exclusive representation of the Royal Opera House archive. This latest photographic collection to become available for licence was amassed…