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.
A year after its acquisition of Veer, Corbis will reduce its workforce by about 175 employees between now and the end of the year. The company has also promoted several senior executives.
Shutterstock has announced that it passed 60 million downloads since 2005. In homage to the founding editor of
Selling Stock, let's try to put these numbers in context.
When marketers were asked to list the top 10 qualities they expected their advertising and marketing agencies to exhibit in the coming year, the number one request was "greater knowledge of the digital space." Even more important was knowledge of pull marketing via social networks, online communities, wikis and blogs.
Belgium's leading stock-image and news agencies move in together.
Jupiterimages has launched a second subscription product that combines traditional stock with microstock.
Jacksonville, Fla.-based a21 is promoting a new line of eco-conscious art. The company has also discontinued negotiations with Applejack, which stood to become its majority shareholder.
Changes in how news and information are delivered to the general public raise some interesting questions about the future of image use.
The Flickr Multicolr search has been updated to work with 10 million Creative Commons-licensed images hosted by Flickr.
Getty Images staff photographer Brent Stirton has won the Visa d’Or Features Award at this week’s international photojournalism festival Visa pour l’Image.
The majority of stock images licensed by traditional sources are being used in some type of printed product. If that is a focus of your business, expect continuing declines.
For photographers there are basically three ways to get photos where customers can see them. The first is setting up a searchable site. This can be costly and tends not to work well unless the photographer has a broad niche image collection, and a solid base of customers. Being recognized as a leading light in the niche helps.
This article defines the six most common methods for licensing stock images. They are: RM, RR, MRR, RF, Subscription and Microstock.
ArtSelect has launched a poster and decorating Web site to target younger, hipper customers.
Getty Images has awarded three editorial grants and committed to continue the program in 2009, when four $5,000 student grants will also be up for grabs.
Whenever you get a request for a buyout of an images the first thing to do is clarify what the clients means by “buyout”. More often than not, when the client uses gthe term “buyout” their definition is very different from the photographer's.