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The production teams of Middle East photo agency arabianEye and production company Bareface have joined together to form a new company called Magnet. arabianEye and Corbis will continue to operate as a photo library combining middle eastern and international content for the Mena region. Bareface, which previously operated under seven…

The Telegraph reports: Garsington Opera: Behind the Getty gates ….’I love opera,’ he says matter-of-factly. ‘I’d been to Garsington twice, and thought it was incredibly beautiful and so well done, and, when I heard that they were looking for a new home through a friend of mine, I thought it…

The British Library has launched it’s new Images Online e-commerce website making available the unique archives of the UK’s national library at www.imagesonline.bl.uk The new system, developed by UK based digital asset management software developer Capture Ltd, comprises a fully-featured web-based back-office system that integrates seamlessly with the front-end, streamlining…

Photos: Hegarty Antiques ‘Recently discovered interesting collection of early slide photographs to be sold at Hegarty’s’ : details here: hegartyantiques.com…

At a press conference Monday Google announced a few enhancements to it’s search facilities, one of them across Images. Google say: “Whether you type, speak or upload a photo, once you’ve indicated what you’re looking for the next step in your search is to sift through the results and pick…

click for your Bristol and Nature Picture Library tour included, – the out-takes ! Photoarchivenews.com stumbled across this video of what appears to be an Spanish photo agent visiting the offices of Bristol based photo agency Nature Picture Library this month… he filmed the visit (at the library about halfway…

This ad is now closed. For Sale An amalgamated historic library including Barratt’s Photo Press, Fleet Street News and London News Service. A rare opportunity to own the full copyright of a historic, mainly black and white, glass plate library originating from the early 1900s to film negatives in the…

Montreal Gazette.com reports: Photographers and writers here and around the world were stunned Sunday to learn that Montreal-based Reuters photographer Shaun Best, 43, had died Saturday night, apparently of a heart attack. Full article here: montrealgazette.com And from Reuters here: Reuters…

Stock photo agency Danita Delimont have uploaded images from UNESCO photo collection. The say: “We’ve recently taken on a new image partner that has spent over 20 years delving through the archives of ancient libraries, museums, monasteries and institutions throughout Europe, searching for this kind of content. Our new gallery,…

4 June – 30 October 2011 V&A/RIBA Architecture Gallery Room 128a at the V&A – FREE Explore the work of Bedford Lemere & Co., the leading architectural photography company of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In business from the 1870s until the 1940s, Bedford Lemere and his son…

BoxOffice Magazine has uploaded a PDF of every issue from 1925 – present on their online Vault page – ‘Welcome to the home for nearly 3000 back issues of Boxoffice Magazine, the theatrical film business’ premier trade publication since 1920. Each week we post five issues from our vast archive…

click through to watch and browse Olympics now Stock footage platform BBC Motion Gallery have released an updated Olympics page featuring coverage of the lead up to the 2012 London Olympics and historical Olympics footage from the archives.…

No shooting at the latest Tom Cruise film location The Orlando Sentinel reports, Try to take a snapshot of Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin or Catherine Zeta-Jones in downtown Fort Lauderdale and you may wind up posing for a mug shot…. Officers at the site said the signs were a response…

click the flyer to view new features : Stock Video Clips – More Search Options – Mobile Friendly……

On-demand video production platform Wooshii.com is changing the way that people source online video – and it is offering traditional video companies a chance to get a slice of the action. Full details on the Industry ads page…

the new look site Russian news photo agency RIA Novosti have launched their new look website. The URL for the English version will change to www.visualrian.ru/en From June 7, visitors [to the original site] www.visualrian.com will be routed automatically to the new site.…

A photo shoot with Zara Phillips photographed by Kit Houghton is part of the latest image upload available at the Country Life Picture Library, see the new images View the latest images here!…

click for a clip Getty Images, is re-branding it’s WireImage Video offering as Getty Images Entertainment Video, providing video coverage of current entertainment-related events and extensive celebrity video archives. The company has enhanced its video offering to now include a simplified delivery method with direct clip downloads, 24 hours per…