Bridgeman Art Library 40th
2012/5/15
The Bridgeman Art Library are celebrating their 40th year in the stock photo business this week. The annual licensing event, CEPIC, coincides with Bridgeman's birthday week and delegates will be given an eye-catching tote bag.
Bridgeman
Hedrich Blessing archive at VIEW
VIEW has been appointed to represent the historical archive of Hedrich Blessing, one of the world’s finest architectural photography studios. The Hedrich Blessing historical collection covers the period 1929 to 1979.
BAPLA
Alamy to sell epa images in UK, North America & the Middle East
3/12
Alamy and european press agency (epa) have signed a strategic commercial agreement which allows Alamy to sell epa's award winning news, sport and entertainment images including the epa archive.
BAPLA
4Corners Images unveiled unique collection
4Corners Images have a unique collection of UK stock photography, taken by 'motographers', photographers who travelled and lived in 4Corners' VW camper van. This allowed them to wait for the weather to be perfect for their photography. In the run up to the London 2012 Olympics 4Corners images from all areas of Britain will be in demand, for the 'Great Britain Games', as there are Olympic venues throughout Britain.
4CORNERSimages
Remi Ochlik killed in Homs, Syria
Remi Ochlik, French photographer was killed when a shell hit the building where he and other journalists were working in Homs, Syria, on 22 Feb 2012. He had founded his own photography agency called IP3 Press, covering news in Paris and conflicts around the world. His work has been published in Le Monde Magazine, VSD, Paris Match, Time magazine and The Wall Street Journal.
IP3 Press
Robert Harding acquires Specialist Stock
Robert Harding World Imagery has acquired Specialist Stock - a collection of photo and footage libraries and a world learder on environmental themed content. Robert Harding will have a comprehensive collection in themes such as global warming and green energy. Footage will be incorporated into their collection.
Specialist Stock’s contributors will have their material exposed to Robert Harding’s wide, well-established client base and strong international partner network.
Robert Harding/Specialist Stock
Portrait of First British Woman to win Nobel Prize at National Portrait Gallery Collection
Professor Dorothy Hodgkin was the First and only British Woman ever to have won a Nobel Prize for science, for her work on vitamins, Among her most influential discoveries were the confirmation of the structures of penicillin, vitamin B12 and insulin, and she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1964).
Ludmilla Jordanova, who retired as a Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery in November 2010, comments, “The inclusion of a female scientist in this archival collection is important both historically and as a role model for women who are keen to take up a career in science and so when the Corbin O’Grady Studio made the portrait available I was very pleased to be able to help purchase it for the Gallery".
National Portrait Gallery
PIC members pledge £100,000 to support National Photography Month 2012
2012-1-3
The Photo Imaging Council has announced that its members have pledged £100,000 in sponsorship to support National Photography Month, a major new initiative to be held across the UK in June 2012.
The Photo Imaging Council and the Photo Marketing Association work together to connect the imaging community with a network of knowledge and support in order to enhance business success and develop new technologies.
PIC Members pledge support for major new initiative to run during June 2012
National Photography Month will be the UK’s first event of its kind dedicated to celebrating the value of photography/ Funds will support nationwide initiatives including a schools project and ‘Capture and Keep’ touring bus.
Veer subscription service
2011-12-9
Corbis brand Veer has introduced a new subscription service. It allows customers to easily access and make purchases from Veer’s growing collection of quality content including nearly two million images.
BAPLA
Further expansion at Alamy
Alamy is expanding its direct sales operations with senior business development and sales staff in Australia and the Middle East. Sascha Weis, former Senior Sales Manager for North America at Corbis, is relocating to Beirut to target the editorial and commercial markets in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Dubai.
BAPLA
Mauritius Images reduces prices on ‘Bestprice Images’ collection
German based photo agency Mauritius Images has drastically reduced its prices on their ‘Bestprice Images’ collection as it repositions itself toward the midstock sector. They have removed print run limitations and prices now start at € 2.50. The Bestprice Images collection boasts 1.8 million images.
Will Carleton
Mobile Phone Images at Aurora
US based photo agency Aurora Photos have launched myPhone Collection of stock photography. This new collection of images taken with iPhones and other mobile devices by some of the world’s top photographers and iPhoneographers, is now available for licensing To coincide with the launch of the myPhone Collection, Aurora is also introducing a new modified Rights Managed licensing model called Easy Rights Managed. The model offers simple, quick, broad, and managed rights at reasonable prices.
Aurora/Will Carleton
Bridgeman now represents three major U.S. collections
Images from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Phillips Collection and the Corcoran Gallery of Art now available at the Bridgeman Art Library....
BAPLA
The Granger Collection addition of 35,000+ images from German picture archive
More than 35,000 images highlighting European politics, the arts, entertainment, and lifestyle from ullstein bild, Germany’s oldest picture archive, are now available at The Granger Collection’s website, www.granger.com. Based in Berlin, ullstein bild holds one of the most significant collections of historical imagery in Europe, covering the ancient past to current events.
stockindex
SPL introduces new RM license
Science Photo Library has created a unique licence. “One Client All Uses” allows image buyers to purchase a rights managed image at one price, for use by one client or company for all manner of uses.
BAPLA
Kursiv launches PiùBella
2011-10-24
Kursiv launches PiùBella, a new photo collection focussed on Beauty, Glamour and Spa. PiùBella (italian for "the most beautiful") already consists of over 7500 exclusive and handselected images. "Magazines and Add agencies often have great difficulty finding a good selection of real good beauty images", say Karsten Risseeuw from Kursiv. "That is why we have created this unique collection of excellent photography. It is not only about the typical glamour pictures, as we also included outstanding natural portraits, artistic nudes and other strong images."
PiùBella is the newest addition to Kursivs focussed collection. Previously the following collections had been released: CHRONIX, an inspirational collection of the unusual, Postcardz, for display and postcard usages and Booxx, a selection of photos and illustrations for bookcover design.
Kursiv
Simon Cliffe steps down from BAPLA
2011-10-13
Simon Cliffe, CEO of the British Association of Picture Libraries is stepping down. Simon's note I’m very, very sad to be leaving this industry – it’s full of incredibly smart, passionate and nice people whose experience I’ve been able to draw upon these last few years.
Fast Media
Photolibrary bought by Getty
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Photolibrary.com and its related websites will be closing as part of the integration of Photolibrary and its brands with Getty Images. These closures will take place no sooner than Tuesday 18th October. Information on how picture researchers can access content is available on photolibrary.com.
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CPA Media E-Book Market
CPA Media, well-known for its guide books National Geographic, Insight Guides, AA, Thomas Cook, Frommer's and DK, and others, prepares to branch into the e-book market with a series of cultural and educational guides focused on the history and culture of Asia, such as Angkor and the Silk Road. CPA Media's picture library, picturesfromhistory.com, offers an extensive range of historical photographs, classical art and ancient scriptures with roots firmly in Asia—from the Middle East to the Far East.
Christmas Archive Movies
Amateur home movie and ‘Christmas’ movies.
The films range from scenes of an early 1930’s wealthy family Christmas, complete with turkey cooking and carving, to a man clearing snow from his front path at Christmastime in 1938 and a North London extended family celebrating Christmas 1963 - memorable moments.
Huntley Film Archives
Photoshot
2011-10-4
Photoshot has acquired new collections, including Red Cover (interiors), LFI and Idols.
Photoshot
John Birdsall: iPhone App
2011-10-1
Social issues photo library John Birdsall’s has a new iPhone App, featuring 20,000 images.
Users can search by keyword, make a lightbox of an image selection and email that direct to their desktop.
Partner Clare Marsh said: ‘Our customers are on-the-go people and we feel this App caters to their needs. They always have their phone to hand. That all-important image for a Social Services brochure, or a set of pictures for an educational book, can now be researched while you sit on a train, wait at the dentists or even during the adverts!’ The award-winning library specialises in Model Released pictures on social issues such as Children, Disability, Families, Old Age & Young People.
Free at iTunes.
Will Carleton
UK Picture Editors' Guild
2011-09-28
The UK Picture Editors' Guild 2011 awards evening at the Honourable Artillery Company Headquarters on the 20th September were as shown in this link.
UK Picture Editors' Guild Winners 2011 These awards are distinctive in that panels of judges consisting only of working picture editors from national and regional newspapers and international photo agencies assess the thousands of entries from professional photographers from throughout the media. Enthusiastic non-professionals also get an opportunity to have their work judged in their own category by the same top editors.
UK Picture Editor;s Guild
NewsfeedUK's news submission and archive system gets an upgrade
Newsfeeduk.com has undergone a system upgrade and website redesign. NewsfeedUK's owners, WPS Media, have incorporated their own custom-made Virtual Press Centre software (VPC) into the system, which now allows everything to be managed via one central administration.
Photo industry editors will be familiar with the way news arrives for companies such as Fujifilm Photoimaging, Kenro and the Master Photographers Association. The NewsfeedUK principle is simple: text that is well written, easy to edit and publish, and images that are available for immediate download in both web and print resolutions.
The new system is fully integrated and allows press release creation and submission, together with image and release archiving, all to happen in one place.
NewsfeedUK
40th Anniversary Bangladesh Independence Exhibition
A retrospective of the ground-breaking photographer, writer, teacher and activist Shahidul Alam will take place at the Wilmotte Gallery, Lichfield Studios this autumn. The exhibition will introduce to London a dynamic figure, who has been largely responsible for the development of photography in the Indian Subcontinent. Also the publication of his new book 'My Journey as a Witness' by Shadidul Alam. As well as founding the award-winning Drik Picture Library (www.drik.net) in 1989, Alam also founded the Bangladesh Photographic Institute in 1990, Pathshala, the South Asian Institute of Photography - considered one of the finest schools of photography in the world - (www.pathshala.net) in 1998; Meghbarta (www.meghbarta.org), Bangladesh's first webzine in 1999; and Chobi Mela (www.chobimela.org), a biennial international festival of photography, which is held in the capital, Dhaka.
The 40 images in the exhibition will mark the 40th anniversary of Bangladesh Independence. They range from portraits of local people and scenes of daily life, to breathtaking landscapes and the impact of disaster situations. All taken in his native Bangladesh, the photographs chronicle Alam‚s journey to challenge oppression and to document the social, political and cultural realities of his country. Spanning three decades of his life, the images offer both interpretative and investigative angles into a culture and national reality that is often misunderstood in the West.
Alam's most recent project is the founding of Majority World, a photo agency dedicated to providing a platform for non-Western photographers, redressing the balance of a world dominated by images from the West.
Wilmotte Gallery
Hilary Evans
Hilary Evans, who died on July 27 aged 82, founded the Mary Evans Picture Library with his wife, transforming a hobbyist’s passion for collecting into a business that supplied illustrations to media clients around the world; he was also an avid investigator of the paranormal.
Telegraph
Shooting on the Front Line: One Soldier’s War in Afghanistan - A New Photographic Exhibition at the River & Rowing Museum 3 September 2011 – 29 January 2012
A new photographic exhibition at the River & Rowing Museum – Shooting on the front line: one soldier’s war in Afghanistan, features the captivating and thought-provoking photography of TA Reservist Major Paul Smyth, and chronicles the day to day realities of life from the front line. Many of Major Smyth’s powerful images and film footage of conflict abroad have been used by news media internationally.
Photographic Exhibition
CEPIC Congress 2012 May 16th - 18th 2012
CEPIC Congress 2012 will be held in the Truman Brewery on Brick Lane in London in May 2012.
CEPIC
CEPIC 2011 Istanbul
News from the Congress and links.
CEPIC
Socialstock
Socialstock, the social documentary image library has just launched it’s new website(www.socialstock.co.uk). The site has been designed to appeal to image buyers looking for specific areas of social documentary includingeducation, healthcare, housing, environment, community, emergency servicesand all aspects of life in Britain today . A new image finder service has been introduced into the site to assist image buyers and picture researchers in finding the right image, together with a new instant easy to buy facility.
socialstock
Fridtjof Nansen and the Voyage of the FRAM
On the 14th November 1892 Fridtjof Nansen read his paper 'How can the North Polar Region be crossed' to the Royal Geographical Society.
The Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Picture Library presents this Limited Edition set of five boxed prints taken by Herbert Ponting.During the late 19th century Fridtjof Nansen led the way in polar exploration through his adoption of Inuit methods of travel and dress. Famous for his willingness to take 'considered risks', Nansen would influence many future polar explorers. Nansen developed a theory that polar ice drifted from east to west on the Arctic oceans currents. He believed that, once frozen in a northerly position in the ice of the Arctic Ocean, a ship could float across the Pole. With this in mind Nansen spent three years preparing an expedition to reach the North Pole, and in June 1893 with his ship the FRAM, he set off travelling east with supplies for six years. Nansen and his crew reached the ice in September and the ship became 'frozen in' at a latitude of 78-79⁰N.
When it appeared that they would not reach the Pole Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen left the FRAM and continued by ski and sledge. However, they were forced to turn back by bad weather; despite this they had travelled closer to the Pole than anyone else prior to that point.
Nansen and the FRAM returned home to worldwide acclaim. During the expedition Nansen and his crew had managed to gather a wealth of scientific data which would be used to break new ground in the field of oceanographic research.
Limited edition box-set of five prints - British Antarctic Expedition (1910-1913)
RGS
Majority World apppoints new Business Development Director
Majority World has announced the appointment of Chris Barwick as Business Development Director. Chris previously held senior roles with industry heavyweights Getty Images and Corbis. Most recently with Magnum Photos, he headed up the London office as Director of Sales with responsibility for all products and services. Chris brings over 14 years of experience to this role and is now tasked with driving the growth of Majority World.
Co founded by Shahidul Alam, Colin Hastings, andRowan Watts, MAJORITY WORLD™i
s no ordinary image library. Its social mission is to provide its photographers (all from
Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East) equality of access to global markets andfair payment at international rates. It is a cause.
Majority World
Ashmolean Museum at The Art Archive
The Ashmolean Museum's collections are now at the Art Archive. Artefacts from pre-Dynastic Egypt, are the finest to be found outside their countries of origin. The Museum's collection covers an enormous range of subjects. Treasures from Ancient China, Japan and the Middle East, and the Saxon and Medieval periods. The collection of Arthur Evans' discoveries at Knossos includes a wealth of Minoan artefacts. The collection also includes fantastic Renaissance paintings and drawings and wonderful Pre-Raphaelite works by the likes of Millais and Rossetti.
Alamy launches in Germany
Alamy has launch their new German website, http://de.alamy.com/ and the independent stock photo site has entered the next phase of its global growth strategy.
The company has spent six months translating all aspects of the customer experience at Alamy into German, with regular visits to German speaking customers to get feedback as the project progressed. The company sees this as an important milestone in understanding how to roll out its unique blend of a massive digital inventory and strong customer service to other languages and regions.
Rachel Wakefield, Head of Sales at Alamy, commented: “Alamy.de combines the amazing choice available on Alamy with our legendary customer service experience. We see a lot of opportunity to increase market share in Germany, the world’s second largest market for stock photography.”
Alamy in Germany
Launch of Mentoring Programme Young Photographers' Alliance
The Young Photographers’ Alliance (YPA) arts charity has now formally been
established in the UK. YPA helps young photographers aged between 18 and 29 bridge the gap between their passion for photography and professional success. Led by industry professionals, YPA provides young photographers with practical experience,sustainable careers. A formal full-scale Mentoring Programme is being launched this month. Mentoring Programme links small teams of promising young photographers with established photographers and picture editors. The young photographers are assigned a common creative brief and they work with their mentors over the course of 2-3 months to produce a cohesive final project. This year we'll have two teams in London and one team in Glasgow working to an "Energy" brief. Our mentors include award-winning fashion, portrait, and advertising photographer, John Wright (www.johnwrightphoto.com), Independent on Sunday Picture Editor, Sophie Batterbury, and leading reportage photographer, Justin Sutcliffe (www.justinsutcliffe.com).
Young Photographers' Alliance
Prestigious Medici Society Archive represented by Mary Evans Picture Library is delighted to announce representation of the prestigious Medici Society archive, a collection of some 37,000 exquisite designs and illustrations. Founded in 1908 by Philip Lee Warner and Eustace Gurney, the company's original aim was to bring artists' work to the appreciation of the general public, with subjects chosen for their artistic value, beauty or sentiment and sold "for the lowest price commercially possible".
Mary Evans
Getty Images Acquires PicScout
Getty Images announced in April 2011 that it has acquired PicScout, a leader in identifying image use, metadata and licensing information on the web.
PicScout
Getty Images and Photolibrary
Getty Images has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Photolibrary.
The acquisition will benefit existing and potential customers, by making even more creative content easily accessible to customers all over the world.
Photolibrary brings to Getty Images a broad range of versatile content, with regional as well as global appeal, including renowned collections such as Peter Arnold and Oxford Science.
BAPLA
Anton Hammerl
Anton Hammerl, the South African photographer missing in Libya has been killed by pro-Gadaffi forces. Journalists who had been detained by the Libyan government at the time Anton disappeared crossed the border last Thursday into Tunisia following their release. They called Penny Sukhraj, Anton's wife and told her the tragic news that Anton had been shot on 5 April 2011 by Gadaffi's forces. Up to that point all indications from the Libyan government had been that Anton was in captivity.
Anton Hammerl last images raising awareness of his captivity
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Artists' Bill of Rights Campaign Launch
The campaign launched on 11 April promotes the rights of creative people of all disciplines, music, photography, video, film, fine arts, writing. It is independent, and open to all artists' representative associations. Representative associations can undertake all the campaign activities and have access to the campaign website to create and publish content credited to their association.
CEPIC
Science Photo Library Turns 30 and Launches 30:30
The world’s leading specialist image and footage agency, Science Photo Library, has been in the business of providing world-class imagery forthe last 30 years. To celebrate, they have launched “30:30” which means clients will receive a series of special anniversary offers throughout the rest of 2011.
Science Photo Library (SPL) was founded in 1981 by Michael Marten, one of the authors of “Worlds Within Worlds”, a bookexploring differentways to observe the universe - from electron micrographs, to images ofearthrise taken from the Apollo spacecraft. When Marten startedreceiving requests for the beautiful images in the book, he had the ideaof setting up Science Photo Library.
SciencePhotoLibrary
Photolibrary and VisitBritain expand historic footage collection
Photolibrary Group, the world’s leading independent provider of stills, footage and music has extended its exclusive distribution agreement with VisitBritain, Britain's national tourism agency, to include access to its extraordinary collection of film footage. Able to offer film drawn from the Britain on View library originally commissioned for VisitBritain’s own marketing campaigns over many years and never before made available for wider use.
The archive team at VisitBritain have uncovered hundreds of films dating as far back as the 1930s which give a unique insight into Britain and life on ‘this sceptred isle’ over many decades. The initial batch of 600 clips can be viewed online at www.photolibrary.com and includes impressive footage including the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II and Trooping the Colour from 1958. Hundreds more clips will be added over the coming months
www.photolibrary.com
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