- Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia, is starting to list companies of the stock photo industry. The article on Alamy is 3 1/2 times longer than the article on Corbis. Obviously the thin red line between advertising and encyclopedia article is disappearing. Some examples:
• Alamy
(sounds like advertisement)
• Corbis
(one small sentence! What is Trylon Communications doing all day?)
• Getty Images
(from the discussion: "The article seems suspiciously commercial.")
• The Image Bank, still listed
• Masterfile
(heavy ad: "The collection covers all the subjects you'd expect")
• Stock photography (including industry structure and history)
• How to catch a Pickerell (strange!)
• Magnum Photos
• The Comstock article disappeared, but the Retrofile article is still online
Louis Lesko, founder of Blinkbid Software (invoicing software for freelance photographers), launched BlinkSavvy.com -- "international business news and information for photographers" -- together with a blog.
- Mactribe interviewing David Norris, CEO of OnRequest Images: "The old days of photographers guessing about what the market might want and producing quantities of imagery, only to have most of them rejected by the stock houses, are over."
This is completely sick: animated images of saints for your cell phone. Although it´d be cute as a button, no images here ... I´ve exceeded the monthly 10 GB bandwith allotment of Typepad by far.
- Content Mine International, through its sister company kpa photo archives, has finished the acquisition of the bankrupt photo agency Transglobe. Around December 2004, Sheldon Marshall of Heritage Partners acquired a 62% (rumours) interest in Content Mine.
Stock (footage) market rises thanks to new technology; Playback Magazine (registration required)
- Testing times for video downloads: British start-up Boxoffice365.com is trying to do for video downloads what the iTunes music store did for audio; BBC
National Geographic Goes Without Photo; ABC News; before it does so, view the "Dynamite Pictures of Ligers". Ligers!
- Developing world, by Jon Levy, editor of foto8.com: "Shooting a greater quantity of photographs does not ensure greater quality. The mantra that I follow is preservation, purpose, presentation"; BBC
Photo Fakery, the history of manipulating photos; OE Magazine
