"Green" has become a ubiquitous sales tool, according to Denise Waggoner, vice president of creative research at Getty Images. This exploitation of the global environmental conscience is the theme of the second edition of Getty's "What Makes A Picture" Report.
As of April 1, Adobe is discontinuing operations of its 3-year-old stock-photo service. Though Adobe Stock Photos was supposed to make designers' lives easier, it did not.
Visual content-monitoring company PicScout will demonstrate PicApp, an ad-supported image-licensing platform, during this week's Israel Web Tour 2008 Showcase. Creative and editorial imagery from Getty Images will be highlighted.
Earlier this month, the Library of Congress launched a pilot project to improve access to some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials in its collection. The LoC has partnered with Flickr, tapping into its vast user community to crowd-source image keywording.
This week the Associated Press jump into election-dedicated media coverage with the launch of The Measure of a Nation. The yearlong multimedia project is billed as an unusual, regularly updated guide to the American presidency.
The Paris-based agency founded by Hélène Roger-Viollet is turning 70. What started as 30,000 negatives housed in a small Parisian store has grown to an 8-million-image collection that documents over a century of European history. The agency plans a number of commemorative events throughout the year.