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Construction Photography offering time-lapse HD footage of London’s Olympic Park
London based Construction Photography, a stock agency specializing in construction photography and images of the built environment, has announced that it is documenting the construction of the new Olympic Park in Lea Valley, East London, with time-lapse photography of what has become the largest construction site in Europe. Construction Photography is documenting this process with High Definition (HD) cameras overlooking the site, benefiting from the highest viewpoint over the Park. The ground breaking Time Lapse system takes two images every minute from several angles and will continue documenting the activity until 2012 and during the Games.
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SIPA Press now representing NBC Universal Photo Bank
NBC Universal has announced a partnership with SIPA Press appointing SIPA Press as a distribution partner for NBC Universal archival television photos offered in the NBCU Photo Bank. The NBCU Photo Bank was launched In July 2006, as an in-house business unit and online photo archive to handle its own photo licensing and distribution of its collection of more than 15 million (digital and analog) images dating from the present time back to the 1920s NBC Radio Days. “NBC Universal Photo Bank is delighted to partner with SIPA Press to further expand our distribution opportunities in Europe,” said Ray Slay, Senior Vice President, NBC Universal Photography and New Media. “We are looking forward to this valuable new relationship which will make NBC content even more readily available to our international clients.”
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Steve Caplin launches thefullmontage a specialty photo library for Photoshop artists
Steve Caplin, a leading photomontage artist and author of several books on digital design with Photoshop, has launched a new stock image library for photomontage artists. The library contains both finished royalty-free (RF) artwork and montage components intended to make it faster and easier for Photoshop users to complete complex photo montage artwork. “Photoshop is the image tool of choice, both for professional designers and for home users. thefullmontage offers images that are both time-saving and inspirational and gives users of all abilities the resources they need to bring their ideas to life,” stated Caplin.
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Medicimage to be exclusive provider of medical imagery to imense Picturesearch
Medicimage, a specialist library from the UK, featuring a medical & healthcare stock photography collection has announced an exclusive distribution partnership with imense Picturesearch to be the sole medical specialist library providing images appearing on the service at imense.com. “The imense picturesearch portal has been created to present the ‘best of breed’ imagery and we are delighted to have been granted exclusive status because it is an independent endorsement that our content is high in production values and originality” stated David Davis, co-founder of Medicimage.
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PicApp now representing paparazzi imagery from Pacific Coast News
Image details: Mya spotted on the beach in Barbados served by picapp.com
Picapp, a service of the Israel based technology company PicScout offering bloggers an ad-supported solution to use celebrity, sports, and news, images free of charge, has announced that it has added paparazzi content from Pacific Coast News(PCN). PCN is one of the more prominent sources for entertainment news and pictures. “We at Pacific Coast News are witnessing a substantial change in the photo industry, with a growing demand for the content by bloggers” Said Paul Harris PCN CEO “I believe that PicApp’s innovative and most scalable application will be able to meet the blogger requirements and therefore provide us with a new distribution channel.”
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John Birdsall to be represented exclusively by PA Photos
The John Birdsall Social Issues Photo Library has signed an exclusive representation agreement with PA Photos, who will now manage the library and serve John Birdsall customers effective January 1st 2009. The John Birdsall collection was launched in 1985, aiming to challenge stereotypical perceptions and promote awareness of subjects such as disability, race and gender. “We are very excited about working with PA Photos, who are also based in Nottingham. They show the same professionalism, customer service and sensitivity in releasing our material. This arrangement frees us up to concentrate on commissions and new photographic projects in the next year, so our collection will continue to be updated and remain fresh,” John Birdsall stated.
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Masterfile launches new image search technology dubbed “Endless Media”
Masterfile, a stock photography company based in Toronto with offices in France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, has announced that it has launched a new online image search user interface called Endless Media. The company is touting that it spent more than a year re-thinking how to search for images and waiting for international patents on the unique methodology and its underlying logic. John McDonald, Masterfile’s Vice-President of Product Development and the technology’s creator, says “Think of it as visual logic for designers with the extreme speed of a desktop application. It’s a ‘type less and see more’ paradigm where users follow their own visual instincts to direct the search. There is nothing out there with its speed and simplicity… and this is just the beginning.”
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TAO Images launches RM Collection featuring lifestyle imagery of China
TAO Images Limited, a stock photography production company from Beijing, has announce the launch of a new rights-managed (RM) image collection entitled ‘Silk’ featuring more than 4,000 images of Chinese culture and travel. Tao Images was founded by by industry veterans Risong Na and Jenny Hu in 2008 “With combined experience in media/publishing industry for over twenty years, we have appreciation in clients’ expectations,” says Jenny Hu.
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Redferns Music Picture Library acquired by Getty Images
Getty Images, the worlds largest stock licensing company has announced the acquisition of the London-Based Redferns Music Picture Library. Founded by British photographer David Redfern in the early 1960’s, the Redferns music picture library offers music imagery ranging from 18th century classical composers to the headliners of today. The collection of more than 30,000 images will be incorporated into the Getty Images site under the respected Redferns brand name as soon as February 2009.
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Book Review: The Life of a Photograph by Sam Abell
The Life of a Photograph by Sam Abell
National Geographic Focal Point (October 21, 2008)
208 pages/hardcover/200 photographs/$40.00
Sam Abell’s purpose permeates all the way through the weighty pages of his latest book, The Life of a Photograph. Abell provides an important insight to his success: He instinctively and deliberately makes photographs, he does not take them. Abell’s definition of the life of a photograph is all about the progression of a scene. He has trained himself so deeply in this practice that at the end of the day, individual images matter less than staying true to his formula for making them.
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Dreamstime partners with Phototimes to offer micro-stock in Russia
Dreamstime, a Brentwood Tennessee based micro-payment stock photography business, has announced that it has partnered with Phototimes (located in Rostov-on-Don, Russia) to effectively cater to the Russian market. The companies are launching what is being billed as the first micro stock photo outlet in Russia at PhotoTimes.ru. “Dreamstime is simple and logical and purchasing Dreamstime images will be made easy for our customers,” said Tamara Kvikviniya, who overseas Phototimes’ foreign economic and trade relations. “We intend to follow that very same model to provide a good service that makes good sense.”
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Masterfile boosts offering with 10 new rights-managed collections
Masterfile, a stock photography company based in Toronto with offices in France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, has announced that it has added more than 50,000 new RM images from 10 new image collections in the past two months. The new collections include lifestyle images from Creasource, conceptual and business imagery from I Dream Stock and eC Pro, Asian lifestyle content from the iRepublic collection, landscape and nature from the Irish Made Collection, and international lifestyle imagery from Blend Images making 6 new collections loaded in October.
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NordicPhotos launches new stock photography website
NordicPhotos, a stock photography agency with offices in Stockholm, Reykjavik and Oslo has announced that it has unveiled a new website. The new site contains many of the typical features found in modern stock photography websites with an innovative design created by award-winning graphic designer Igor Kazakoff. The new website helps to further consolidate the collections obtained through series of acquisitions including the latest acquisition of the Norwegian agency GV-Press based in Oslo, NordicPhotos new web site is now available in five languages; English, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic and Danish.
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Google digitizing 10 million images from the LIFE Photo Archive
Time Inc. has teamed up with Google to digitize more than 10 million images from the LIFE’s Photo Archive to be made available online utilizing a hosted image service from Google. According to a recent press release “ninety-seven percent of the photographs have never been seen by the public” and the archive contains some of the most iconic images of the 20th century, including works from great photojournalists Alfred Eisenstaedt, Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks, and W. Eugene Smith. Thius follows an announcement in September where Time Inc. is teaming up with Getty Images to launch a similar photo viewing site at Life.com.
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Buzz Foto counting on experienced photojournalists to drive future growth
Buzz Foto, a paparazzi agency from Los Angeles, has announced that it is basing its corporate growth plans on recruitment efforts to attract the best experienced photojournalists. Buzz Foto was founded in 2006 with what the company describes as a “talented, yet untrained, pool of photographers.” Due to increasing competition in the marketplace the company is looking to develop a roster of top-tier photography talent in order to stand-out from the crowd.
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Mazer Corporation launches stock photography business to serve educational publishers
The Mazer Corporation, an educational publishing company based in Dayton Ohio,has announced that it has launched a stock photography licensing business called Mazerstock. The Mazerstock archive features imagery focused on K–12 and postsecondary education and related imagery. “Mazerstock has eliminated the need to sift through commercial content while looking for appropriate editorial content,” said Content Manager Lydia Mazer. “We’ve worked to create a diverse collection of world leaders in stock photography and independent photographers, and we’ve hand-filtered every single image to make sure that it is educationally appropriate.”
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ArabianEye produces medical, vacation, luxury lifestyle, and youth RM collections
ArabianEye, a stock photography agency based in Dubai and specializing in imagery of the Arab and Islamic world, has announced that it has produced four new specitly rights-managed (RM) collection on such topics as medical, vacation, luxury lifestyle, and youth. Each the new collections features approximately 1000 images that have been produced and are wholly- owned by arabianEye.
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McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Pearson, adopt PLUS Image Licensing Standards
The Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS,) an international non-profit organization dedicated to creating standard image usage rights terms and definitions, has announced that tree major publisher have announced that they will adopt the PLUS Picture Licensing Glossary definitions in their contracts. The three publishers, McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Pearson, have also committed to encouraging image suppliers to begin embedding PLUS license metadata in all images within one year. “The PLUS standards benefit publishers and their suppliers by simplifying and clarifying the process of licensing and managing images. We are in the process of implementing PLUS standards, and we would find it very useful for our image suppliers to adopt PLUS standards as well.” stated Bonnie Beacher, Senior Director of Contracts, Copyrights and Permissions at McGraw-Hill Education.
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Picture-House NY Gaining Steam
This year’s annual picture buyer fair in New York City broke records for vendor participation and buyer attendance. The eight-year old event, run by PictureHouse Marketing US, LLC, took place on October 29th at the Altman Building in Chelsea and attracted over 100 stock photo companies. Most importantly, the number of stock photo users and buyers exceeded 850, a nearly 25% increase from the previous year with more ad-agency personnel as opposed to editorial buyers in the mix.
