Ellen Boughn is on the road again. She is now Vice President-Photography for Artville in Madison, WI after being with Definitive Stock in Seattle for about four months.
Picture Perfect and Todtri Productions, Inc. are seriously delinquent in their payments to stock agencies and photographers. Both organizations are owned by Robert Tod and based in New York City.
More short news items of interest to stock photo producers and sellers.
With this file you can print out the entire January 1999 issue of SELLING STOCK which includes a reaction to Jonathan Klein's argument for lowering Photographer percentages, a suit against PhotoDisc for usage of an image without a model release, and a major feature on the changes in photographer/agent relationships as a result of major agency consolidation on the industry.
Photographer Larry Aiuppy points out the fallacy in Jonathan Klein's thinking when Klein compared, in his recent New York speech, the percentage compensation phototgrapher ''talent'' receives to that of movie stars in the entertainment industry.
A new feature of Selling Stock contains a number of short items of interest to stock photo producers and sellers.
In the last few years as more and more of the marketing of stock photos has been taken over by conglomerates, bringing drastic changes to the industry. Often, what benefits these companies does not benefit the individual photographer. This article examines certain issues important to photographers, and suggests photographer strategies for the future.
Sheldon Marshall, CEO of Visual Communications Group outlines future plans for Royalty Free marketing and discusses several other issues of recent concern to FPG and Telegraph Colour Library photographers.
The Bridgeman Art Library has produced a complete visual catalog of their entire collection on a single CD-ROM disc. The disc showcases over 100,000 pictures and operates on either MAC or PC. This is not a DVD, but a CD!!
Carl Purcell settles with AOL. Galen Rowell, Carr Clifton, Jeff Gnass and Tom Till settle with Price Costco. Several lessons were learned.