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Go See: Richard Young – Limited Edition Elizabeth Taylor Images

Richard Young Gallery 4 Holland Street London W8 4LT Monday – Thursday 10am – 6pm Friday 10am – 5pm Saturday 10.30am – 5pm Closed Sunday They say: Britain’s foremost celebrity photographer, Richard Young, will exhibit his most prized images of the late Elizabeth Taylor, in a Limited Edition collection spanning…

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Audio Stock Library Content Available At Windows Live Movie Maker

Stock music resource AudioMicro has announced it has been the included as a featured music partner in the newly updated version of Windows Live Movie Maker. Users of the latest version of the software can navigate to AudioMicro.com directly from the program’s home tab to license royalty free music and…

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Updated; Copyrights To Clear – Various Photo Collections

27 Aug: “Hi Will, I am the archives manager for Bauer Consumer Media, based in Peterborough. I have just seen on the Home page of the Press Photo History site that Mr Baz Staple is looking to contact the copyright holder for Temple Press. I believe it is us!” …continue…

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NPG Frees Up Collection To Creative Commons License Use

The National Portrait Gallery in London has added a Creative Commons licence option across it’s image library for ‘limited non commercial use – amateur projects (e.g. blogs, local societies and family history)’. Image size is restricted to 800 pixels on the longest dimension at 72 dpi and users can ‘Making…

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Footage Archive Awarded Heritage Lottery Fund Grant

The Shetland Moving Image Archive Group has been awarded a grant of £25,200 from the (UK) Heritage Lottery Fund. The grant, along with sums raised from film screenings and a raffle, plus a matching sum from LEADER, is for phase one of the Shetland Film Archive development project. The funds…

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Naked Prince Harry Photos Emerge – UK Papers Refusing To Publish

Updated 7 September: Sky News reports ‘Prince Harry Nude Snaps: No Press Inquiry’ ‘Britain’s press watchdog has ruled out an inquiry into the publication of nude photos of Prince Harry cavorting with a naked woman.’….. full report here News.Sky.com The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) said it was in dialogue with…

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Martine Franck 1938 – 2012 Photographer

Magnum photographer Martine Franck has died. PAN reader Jinx Rodger [wife of Magnum photographer George Rodger] sent this reaction to Martine’s passing on Saturday; Dear Will: Magnum has lost a great photographer. Martine Franck has just died from cancer. I am very very sad as she was such a great…

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Photo Agency Favours Image Bidding Over Credits

UK headquartered stock photo agency Pocketstock has launched bidder, ‘a revolutionary new way to buy stock photos’. They say” Before bidder, a royalty free stock photo buyer needed to purchase photo credits, limited by expiration dates, simply to have the opportunity to purchase microstock images. The stock photography seller, not the…

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Getty Images Has A New Owner

‘Global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group (NASDAQ: CG) and Getty Images management announced today they have formed a partnership to acquire Getty Images, Inc., a global creator and distributor of still imagery, video and multimedia products, from Hellman & Friedman for $3.3 billion. Carlyle will acquire a controlling stake…

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Google Downgrades Copyright Infringers Through Violation Notices

Amit Singhal, SVP, Engineering at Google Search has posted a notice on Google’s search blog noting that the search engine will be downgrading copyright infringers on it’s algorithms, the move mainly concerns music and film violations but it’s a move in the right direction. …’Starting next week, we will begin…

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UK Photo Library Offers First Europeana Dedicated Search Button

above: An example of one of the hidden gems in the TopFoto archive that has been discovered with the partnership of the EuropeanaPhotography project. EU001059 – “Chariots of Fire” legend, Harold Abrahams (blindfolded on left, 4 years before he won the Olympic Gold medal for Great Britain), Cambridge ‘Blue’ and…