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[© Grace and Katie]

Chiudo, per un circa settimana, questo weblog. Infatti, a mio modesto parere, per scrivere bisogna prima pensare e, i blogs spesso ti tolgono lo spazio per pensare.


(Hint for the person/CEO/BizDeveloper etc. who is constantly looking for "DigitalVision 2003 revenues", ""Image source" 2003 revenues" or "Index stock imagery 2003 revenues" and other good stuff-- Google hits are a tricky thing, especially with your really nice -- and static -- IP! So, no one has to work for Pixlogic, the company ("Visual Search") with Venture Capital from the CIA, just to know who you are...).
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National Football League Photo Library, WireImage, Getty Images: A Follow Up

[© Image Duke University: Football]

Update to "Photographers and N.F.L. Collide Over Licensing Plan for Archives" (June 18)

At EP someone recently asked: "Anyone know of any lists where the transfer of the NFL Photos collection to WireImage is being discussed?" There had been -- just because of the NYT contract issue -- in the past a malicious response (bottom of page) from another EP contributor:

The article on the controversy surrounding on the ongoing contract dispute between the National Football League and its contributing photographers is especially interesting considering the Times' failure to report on the controversy surrounding the contract dispute between the New York Times and its freelance photographers over the Times' recent contract offer. When will we see that story covered in their newspaper?

Someone responded now: "Sportsshooter.com has had some threads on this". Indeed, there is a new (July 19) article from Paul Spinelli (the former NFL Director of Photographic Services in LA) titled "NFL Photo Library: An insider's perspective" who discusses "accusations of mismanagement of the archive and failure to respond to the advent of the digital age".

However, the issue is solved: Getty is out and WireImage was lucky. PDN has the complete story "WireImage Scores NFL Photo Archive; Photogs Get Buyout Package" (Jay DeFoore):

The National Football League has reached an agreement with photographers to dismantle the NFL Photo Library...The photographers own the copyright to their images and will retain copyright under the current deal.[...]
But enough of the NFL's past and current contributors so opposed Getty's involvement that they successfully steered the deal towards WireImage...Lewis...a photographer...says the deal signals that company's "great victory over Getty...this will be the first time [Getty has] lost out on an exclusive...this could be a precedent-setter".

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Archive Awareness Campaign: No Sex Please We're British

No Sex Please We're British...this can only happen in UK, the Archive Awareness Campaign:

Following the success of Archive Awareness Month in September 2003 AAC is now an ongoing campaign, supported by The National Council on Archives, The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council and The National Archives. Through a series of events throughout the year it aims to celebrate and uncover the amazing wealth of material contained within archives to a wider audience.

SIO adds ("Treasures from our heritage rediscovered"):

The organisers are planning to have a media launch and need “dazzling images which have not been seen before or are recent acquisitions”, so this will be an opportunity for both researchers to find new material but also for some photolibraries to gain publicity for their material.

[© Image UKSquad]

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: Another Great Image Library with (uhm) Free Images

[© National Oceanic & Atmospheric Adminstration (NOAA)/Bob Bishop: "Cumulus Lenticularis - a remarkable roll cloud over the Sierras Formed by the Sierra Wave north of Independence, California Strong updrafts associated with this cloud type"]

(via Peter Marshall):

"The United States Federal Government set up a number of physical science agencies in the nineteenth century, including the Coast Survey (1807), Weather Service (1870) and Fish Commission (1871). Today this work is carried on by the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration). Their work over the years has included a great deal of photography and you can see much of the best of this in albums in the NOAA Photo Library web site. This includes some great images of storms and sunsets, as well as important historical images. There are more than 20,000 public domain images available in the library."

The Image Collections shown include (among others, there are about 20 different albums): Geodesy - Measuring the Earth - images from around the world; America's Coastlines -from the Aleutians to Maine - breathtaking images of our Nation's coastlines; Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth - share the wonders of our planet as scientists, sailors, pilots, divers, and other members of the NOAA family lead you on a journey to the ends of the Earth, and other stuff.

Introducing New Categories

Some people have asked if there won´t be a better way to organize all those entries... .
The build-in google search might be nice, but shows often too many hits. On the other hand we wanted to add some new categories since weeks.
So here they are. 19 new categories. Assigning new categories to some hundreds of old posts is a tough (and boring) job, so for a couple of days (weekend) new posts will appear only irregularly.
[© Image creativemac.com]

[Update June 9, 2004: Forget it. There is no way to re-open over 300 posts and reassigning new categories to the old posts. So these new categories only work with future posts or some very important old posts which had been adjusted. Try the Google Search instead. Sorry]

New categories:

Two New Image Databases Featuring Social History

Two new image libraries with a focus on social history are "Hidden Lives Revealed" and "West Sussex Past Pictures".
Hidden Lives Revealed is a virtual archive of children in care from 1881 until 1918 showing about 200 images in 12 sections from disadvantaged and poor children (the photos can be used for e-cards), initiated by the Children's Society.

West Sussex Past Pictures presents "the official database of heritage photographs, prints, drawings and paintings provided by local museums and the County Library Service...Over 5000 of our best images from the 1640s to the present can be viewed, downloaded and printed for educational or private use free of charge."

[thx to Joan for mailing this/ Image: "Title:'Arms forward stretch.' Exercises in the garden of one Toddler Home Date: Around 1933" =>Rights: ©The Children's Society]

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