The Independent/Tim Webb has another story about Jonathan Klein. Besides insisting that the creative research division of Getty Images is not "smoking dope" and the fact that the market value of Getty Images is around $4.3bn (£2.3bn) the article continues
Not all trends are possible to predict. Klein says that after 11 September, common key words used by customers to search for images on the company's website changed within a week. "9/11 made us focus on different things. The 'me, me, me' of the Nineties came to an abrupt end." Words like comfort, home, safety, security, family, he adds, became the most used in searches.
Klein admits that he finds it "extremely difficult looking at our website" because of the graphic violence sometimes depicted. One Getty Images photographer, who was embedded with a US Marines unit in Iraq, photographed a civilian car that drove through a checkpoint. The Marines fired and killed the parents, but the five children in the back survived. The US military threw the photographer out of the unit after Getty published the pictures. "If we see it, we shoot it. It's up to the editor whether he wants to use the image with the children spattered with the parents' brains." (Link)
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