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On About The Image: ‘Over one hundred years, a collection of more than 4 million images. The Mondadori Group based in Italy has opens its own photographic archives to picture buyers… Read on here, see the images and the Library team : AboutTheImage.com…

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…

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…

Corbis on Twitter say “Until Aug 31st, get 25% off your order of Rights Managed or Royalty-Free Images. Use offer code SUMMER2012” ! See also: Current Photo Library Loyalty Deals…

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…

Wildlife images specialist FLPA have a new contributor photographer Des Ong. The say: ‘FLPA are very discerning when it comes to taking on new photographers and accept a few each year. One of the edits that really stood out for us was from Des Ong.’ View and license a selection…

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…

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…

‘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…

UK based celebrity photo agency FameFlynet landed their own ‘gold medal’ with over 40 Olympic news images (a couple of examples above) used in UK newspapers on Saturday 11 August. John Churchill, Co-owner at the agency told PhotoArchiveNews.com: “We have had an excellent showing in the papers today (13 Aug)…

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…

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…

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New request on the Press Photo History Project now… Dear Will, I came across your website today whilst searching for the photographers S.A Chandler & Son, originally based in Southampton. I am looking to see if an archive of this photographers photos exists? Any information you have would be greatly…

Dear Will, Thank you for speaking with me on the phone just now. Trinity House are looking to track down the current owners of some photos we’ve had in our library for a long time, with a view to licensing them for use in a book. The main agency is…

Hello Will I was pointed in your direction by Suzy from the PA. I am not sure if you can help, I would love to discover more of my Grandadfathers pictures – not sure if his negs are sitting in an archive somewhere! Attached is his image of Richard Burton…

– Vic Singh; his listing on a web sight is without any phone number-Have written many e-mail s to him but as yet nothing in return-He did live in Chelsea and was in operation and still was working some few years ago Well known in the industry with a great…