The Annenberg Foundation, one of America's largest family foundations, is financing a community space dedicated to digital images and print photography. The 10,000-square-foot Annenberg Space for Photography will open in spring 2009 in Los Angeles. In addition to traditional-format work, a state-of-the-art digital presentation system will display digital photographs in large and high-resolution format.
Prompted by the Sept. 11 announcements of massive Corbis layoffs and the closing of the PhotoShelter Collection, PhotoNetCast has released a podcast that contemplates the future of stock photography. Several participants provide their answers to the question: "Is the future really just microstock?"
Next issue of Masterfile's
File takes on environmentalism, hits mid-September.
One thing PhotoShelter's demise teaches us is that 70% of nothing is still nothing. Percentage alone is not the critical issue for photographers. Nevertheless, too many focus on that issue, because it is the only absolute in a relationship where someone else is licensing rights to your photography.
New offering makes rights-ready footage available for instant purchase and download.
While the
The Atlantic's cover image of John McCain is unremarkable, photographer Jill Greenberg has been embroiled in controversy over her treatment of the outtakes and comments made to
Photo District News.
Digital Railroad comments on the closing of the PhotoShelter Collection.
Hawaii Kai-based Pacific Stock has turned 20.
This story deals with a number of things that need to be considered when negotiating. It includes a discussion of how to deal with multiple of a single image in multiple publications, or many insertions in a single publication. There is a discussion of buyouts, discounting where there are multiple images licensed in a single sale, reuse and revision and minimum price. Finally there is a checklist of things to consider when negotiating.
A year since its launch, the PhotoShelter Collection is no more. Company CEO Allen Murabayashi delivers the news to contributors via email and corporate blog.