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Visions of America images now available for licensing
During the past 30 years Joseph Sohm visited and photographed all fifty states, documenting the rich cultural and political history of the United States. His far-reaching collection of images have been published more than 50,000 times, including his Bill Clinton portrait that graces the back cover of the former President’s biography, “My Life”. As he had built his impressive collection, Sohm has become a respected photo historian featured on C-SPAN and sought after for keynote addresses at various trade organization shows and university conferences.
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Photolibrary acquires Peter Arnold Inc.
Photolibrary, one of the leading global stock licensing companies with offices in the United Kingdom, USA, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, and various locations in Asia, has announced that it has acquired New York-based Peter Arnold Inc. The addition of this specialist library featuring a wide range of editorial images with concentrations in Natural History, Science, and medicine, complements Photolibrary’s current archive including such collections as Garden Picture Library, Oxford Scientific, Fresh Food Images, Britain on View, and Monsoon Images.
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StockXpert is ceasing regular operations
In a recent message sent to users of the micropayment stock photography site StockXpert, the company announced that it is ceasing operations and that it will no longer sell new credits or accept new members. The StockXpert site was launched by the Hungarian based HAAP Media which also operated the popular sxc.hu, a free stock photography download site. The business was later acquired by JupiterImages in Nov 2006 which was acquired itself by Getty Images in Oct 2008. Getty Images also owns iStockphoto, the world’s most popular micro-payment stock photography site.
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Getty launches Thinkstock subscription product
Getty Images announced it will now offer another subscription product, Thinkstock, giving new life to a brand the company acquired from Jupiter Images in 2008. The Thinkstock subscription product will include millions of high-quality royalty free photographs, illustrations and vectors from its Getty Images, iStockphoto and Jupiter Images collections. Thinkstock will include both professional and user-generated content. Getty plans to add thousands of new images to the product weekly to keep it fresh and vibrant.
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ASPP and PACA launch “REINVENTION WEEKEND” conference for photography professionals
The American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) has teamed up with the the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) to produce a “Reinvention Weekend” conference in Boston on April 15th – 18th. The focus of the conference is to aid attendees in Reinventing, Reimagining and Reinvigorating your career or your approach to the photography business. The conference is being structured to foster spirited dialogues with photo contemporaries including: stock agents, researchers, editors, publishers, art buyers, photographers and consultants.
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Picapp integrates with Google Knol
Google announced this week it has added image search engine Picapp as an integrated partner to its Knol publishing site. Knol publishers will now have the ability to search within the Knol editor for images from Picapp’s Partner API and its more than 20 million images covering entertainment, sports, news, travel, fashion, medical, food, and more. “Implementing our Partner API with a strong partner such as Google, which stands for innovation and excellence and which is committed to reducing online image piracy, represents a major milestone for Picapp with its mission to bring legal, affordable images to online publishers,” said Eyal Gura, CEO, Picapp.
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Image Source announces World Cup prize drawing
Royalty Free image producer Image Source has announced its World Cup 2010 prize drawing, to be held on April 19. Customers qualify for the draw with any purchase on the imagesource.com site during the first three months of 2010. The lucky winner will receive round-trip airfare from London to Capetown and hotel accommodations for two at a top hotel. Game tickets included in the winner’s package are seats at a Round 16 game a quarterfinal match at Capetown’s beautiful Green Point Stadium.
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Take Stock Being Distributed by The Image Works
Renowned Civil Rights photographer Matt Herron’s Take Stock collection will now be available exclusively through The Image Works. Herron’s collection features historic stock photography of the civil rights movement, its leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King, and Cesar Chavez’ Migrant Farm Workers Movement.
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Mary Evans Picture Library launches promotional magazine
Mary Evans Picture Library, a stock photography company from the UK specializing in historical images, has announced that it is launching a brand new promotional magazine entitled “ME & You”. The magazine has been compiled by members of the Mary Evans team, with the aim of giving picture buyers an in-depth perspective on many aspects of the library’s collection. The first issue features a retrospective of the swinging sixties, a peek into fascinating material held on the notorious Mitford sisters and a set of topical illustrations on the crossword craze of the 1920s complete with a crossword puzzle for readers to try their hand.
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Getty Images is gearing up for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver
In its role as the Photographic Agency to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the twelfth consecutive games, Getty Images will cover all aspects of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games (February 12-28). Getty Images has been the IOC’s Photographic Agency since Calgary’s Winter Games in 1988.
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Paramount Pictures launches online film clips site
The New York Times recently reported that Paramount Pictures has launched a footage licensing site, offering clips from its large archive of films to commercial users of stock footage. Paramount may eventually offer the clips to the consumer market but at this time have limited licensing to advertising agencies, corporations, broadcast companies and other commercial customers. The site allows visitors to search the archive on a frame-by-frame basis.
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Image Source now offering Cross-Media Pack’s online
Image Source, a leading producer of royalty free stock imagery based in London, has announced that it has begun offering its‘Cross-Media Pack’ for online licensing. A Cross-Media Pack, is a collection of related content including approximately 50-80 still images and 10-30 motion clips that can be licensed together.
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Fotolia reaches 8 million image mark
Leading microstock company Fotolia recently added its 8 millionth image, a new milestone for the popular image library. Fotolia adds 10,000 new images per day on average and in addition to its vast royalty free image collection the company also offers customers vector files and videos.
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Blend Images wins design award for campaign by Spil Creative
Blend Images, a stock photography agency specializing in ethnically diverse business and lifestyle imagery, has announced that it has won an award in “The American Graphic Design Awards,” a national design competition sponsored by Graphic Design USA magazine, recognizing the best in graphic design and published in their Awards Annual released in early December. The award winning campaign won accolades in the “Advertising” category.
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Mary Evans now representing The Ronald Grant Archive
![THE BIG SLEEP [US 1946] HUMPHREY BOGART, LAUREN BACALL - WARNER BROS / Ronald Grant Archive](http://www.abouttheimage.com/images/uploads/evans_grant_archive_090309.jpg "THE BIG SLEEP [US 1946] HUMPHREY BOGART, LAUREN BACALL - WARNER BROS / Ronald Grant Archive")
Mary Evans Picture Library, a specialist library from the UK featuring historical images, has announced that it is now representing the Ronald Grant Archive. One of the leading experts in the field of cinema history with content dating back to 1898, the Ronald Grant Archive is run by a team who are not only knowledgeable, but deeply passionate about their subject. Their in-depth knowledge of cinema in all its forms adds extra value to an exceptionally rich and detailed collection.
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Photo Cuisine expands to the UK
The Paris-based stock agency, Sucre Sale/Photocuisine has announced that it has expanded into the UK market offering its collection of more than 140,000 rights-managed (RM) and royalty-free (RF) images directly in the UK market for the first time.
Getty launches new web and mobile licensing types
Getty Images, widely considered to be the world’s largest stock licensing company, has announced that it has released two new Web & Mobile image products featuring very small file sizes (170 pixels and 280 pixels) designed specifically for online and mobile use. Getty Images’ Web & Mobile images are priced according to pixel size and license model, ranging from $5 for RF and $15 for RM, to the current $49 (413 pixels/500kb) web-resolution product.
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Getty appoints iStockphoto to manage free stock photography site SXC.hu
Earlier this year when Getty images completed its acquisition of JupiterImages the company also acquired a popular free stock photography site located at sxc.hu. The popular site reported in 2006 to have over 25 million page views monthly and over 500,000 registered at the time it was purchased by JupiterMedia from the Hungarian company Haap Media. The previous strategy was to use this free image site to upsell users to its own micro stock platform located at Stockxpert.com and now Getty Images is seeing the potential to continue operating the free site as a means to funnel traffic to its own micro-payment site iStockphoto.
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Mary Evans now representing Alinari Archives
Mary Evans Picture Library, a specialist library from the UK featuring historical images, has announced that it is now representing Alinari Archives, a leading Italian source of historical images, in both the UK and the USA. Founded in Florence in 1852, Alinari is the oldest photography archive in the world. “Although Alinari is represented by other companies in the UK, they are a natural partner for Mary Evans; since we have the most diverse and in depth historical collection in the country, our clients expect to be able to source such a prestigious collection as Alinari from us, and now they can.” stated Paul Brown, Managing Director of Mary Evans
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Bridgeman now representing Cyril Power linocut prints
London based Bridgeman Art Library, a specialty library featuring fine art, history and culture related images, has announced that it now represents the estate of Cyril Power. Cyril Edward Power (1872–1951) was an English artist best known for his linocut prints and for co-founding The Grosvenor School Of Modern Art in London in 1925. “We are hugely excited to have been given the opportunity to license the highly creative and dynamic linocut prints of Cyril Power which we believe will be hugely popular for licensing, spreading the importance of his work which has been largely hidden till now,” stated Adrian Gibbs Collections Manager at Bridgeman.
