A collection of Magnum press prints bought by Dell computer founder Michael Dell a few years ago from the Magnum New York archives has been donated to the Harry Ransom Center. The say: The Magnum Photos collection, which contains nearly 200,000 press prints of images taken by world-renowned Magnum photographers,…
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Another squeeze on the paparazzi here, California has passed a law protecting children of celebrities – harassing them can land a photographer in jail for a year or a $10,000 fine – good reports at Reuters and the LA Times and here’s the Senate Bill 606…
The CEPIC committee in Belrlin: From left to right: Lars Modie, Anders Lusth, Pieter Doorman, Véronique Martingay, Alfonso Gutierrez, John Balean, Sylvie Fodor, Edith Stier-Thompson, Stefan Wittwer Photo: Robert Schlesinger/ dpa The new Board of CEPIC held their first committee meeting in Berlin on 20 September. The meeting was held…
Not the most exciting video but, ‘The Gado 2 is an inexpensive, open source archival scanning robot which small archives can use to digitise their photographic collections.’ Project Gado, a technology startup building sustainable models for archival digitisation has announced a ‘strategic partnership’ with Getty Images. Project Gado, a robotics…
Offset, a high-end imagery platform from dynamo photo agency Shutterstock has launched officially after being in beta availablility since April this year. Offset opens with a collection of 45,000 authentic, narrative images from 100 renowned artists and bills it’s self as a disruptor of the high-end imagery market with simple,…
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This just in .. Australia based celebrity and creative image licensing agency Snapper Media has been acquired by New York based photo agency Trunk Archive. Snapper Media licenses high end prestige studio, creative collections and photo journalism by acclaimed photographers through to up to the minute red carpet and paparazzi…
Getty Images has appointed Matthew Bencke to Senior Vice President of Product and Customer Experience based at the photo agency’s Seattle office. They say: Bencke’s position is a new role within Getty Images, created to advance technology innovations, enhance the user experience and develop new products and services. He will…
The New York Post reports on a model suing Getty Images as a stock shot of her shot years ago is used in a HIV-positive advert. Full story here: nypost.com…
The Fotofringe London 2014 date was announced a couple of weeks ago – and already traditional still photo libraries are preparing content to premier at the event. The stock footage department at Bridgeman are gearing up says Footage Manager Rachel Brinton Matthews “We will be featuring Bridgeman Footage at the…
Big effort and great exploration of the image collection here from the Author Pictures department at photo library Lebrecht who have started a series of mailings showcasing their material relating to World War I. They say: “Over the course of the next four years, we will be adding more images…
Fab addition to the licensing content offering here from creative images photo library Image Source. They who have announced a partnership with CueSongs, the one-stop music licensing hub for online and digital media. The agreement puts CueSongs as the exclusive music partner for the launch of the Image Source new…
Just as we were thinking of turning on the heating at PAN HQ this week this photo and note dropped in from specialist photo library Arctic Photo Hi Will, Bryan is just back from a summer trip to Siberia, where he was living in this (above photo) Polog, a tent…
↑ James video-caming answers to contributors questions In June this year Alamy CEO James West opened a Q&A feature allowing Alamy contributors to submit a question which he then answered via a series of video’s…that went well, so, James is now up for another round of questions. Alamy say: He’s…
A new Executive Committee for BAPLA has been announced: Steve Lake, 4Corners Images – Chair John Balean, TopFoto – CEPIC & International Relations Isabelle Doran, Loupe Images – Lobbying & Legislation, BAPLA Secretary Jonathan Lockwood, Getty Images – Lobbying & Legislation, BAPLA Treasurer Paul Seheult, Eye Ubiquitous – Collecting Societies…
Youth culture specialist photo library PYMCA have launched an online magazine called PYZINE to celebrate and highlight images from the collection.…
PAN was invited to an evening bash this week to celebrate a smashing collection of Picture Post images by photographer Bert Hardy on display in London at the Getty Images Gallery, just off Oxford St – the graphic above is from the invite they sent. – Cheers! Bert Hardy –…
This photo in from photographer Mark Leech (Offside Sports Photography) who organised a meeting of sports photographer Colin Elsey’s friends on the 10th September to mark the 10th anniversary of Colin’s death. Colin worked with the Colorsport photo agency. ↑ 10/9/2013 “A group of us outside his spiritual home, The…