Boughn Moves Again

By Jim Pickerell | 469 Words | Posted 1/19/1999 | Comments
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 In Arrears

By Jim Pickerell | 2960 Words | Posted 1/19/1999 | Comments
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.

Random Thoughts 2

By Jim Pickerell | 1168 Words | Posted 1/19/1999 | Comments
More short news items of interest to stock photo producers and sellers.

January 1999 Selling Stock

By Jim Pickerell | 5261 Words | Posted 1/10/1999 | Comments
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 Percentages

By Jim Pickerell | 1193 Words | Posted 1/6/1999 | Comments
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.

Random Thoughts

By Jim Pickerell | 1115 Words | Posted 1/6/1999 | Comments
A new feature of Selling Stock contains a number of short items of interest to stock photo producers and sellers.

Impact Of Major Agency Consolidation

By Jim Pickerell | 4724 Words | Posted 1/6/1999 | Comments
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.

Conversation With Sheldon Marshall

By Jim Pickerell | 3406 Words | Posted 12/13/1998 | Comments
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.

100,000 Images On A Single Disc

By Jim Pickerell | 633 Words | Posted 12/3/1998 | Comments
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!!

Legal Update - November 1998

By Jim Pickerell | 555 Words | Posted 11/20/1998 | Comments
Carl Purcell settles with AOL. Galen Rowell, Carr Clifton, Jeff Gnass and Tom Till settle with Price Costco. Several lessons were learned.

About Michael Masterson

Michael Masterson has a broad range of experience in marketing, business development, strategic planning, contact negotiations and recruiting in the photography, graphic design and publishing industries. In addition to his long experience at the Workbook and Workbookstock, Masterson owned and was creative director of his own graphic design firm for several years.

Masterson has been a speaker or panelist at industry events such as Seybold, PhotoPlus Expo, Visual Connections and the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) national conference. He is currently the national president of the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP). He also serves on the board of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council in his Los Angeles community. He chaired the marketing committee for the Los Angeles Conservancy, a historic preservation advocacy group, for many years.

He currently heads Masterson Consulting, working on projects ranging from business development for creative companies and sourcing talent for them to promoting and marketing industry events as well as providing resume and professional profile services for job-seekers. He can be reached at zvpunryqznfgrefba@tznvy.pbz.