Every time I see a William Claxton picture I can´t help thinking of the time I had the chance to work with this great photographer.
For most people Claxton is the jazz photographer and this is partially true.
He worked for many years for Globe Photos, at that time the best celebrity photo agency of the 50's, 60's and 70's.
For more than 20 years I was the sales manager of an agency which represented Globe Photos in Italy and William Claxton was one of the best photographers of that agency.
Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM), (www.jupitermedia.com) headquartered in Darien, CT, is a leading provider of original images and information for creative, business and information technology professionals. Jupiterimages provides photos and other graphic images electronically while JupiterWeb is the online media division of Jupitermedia.
Veer provides visual elements for use in professional creative work, such as graphic design, motion design, advertising, and filmmaking. The image industry is a driving passion for the management and employees of Veer. With thousands of satisfied customers, years of industry experience, and an unparalleled set of skills, the people at Veer have what it takes to deliver exciting, innovative products to enhance creativity. Want to join us?
Blend Images is the world´s leading multiethnic stock agency with an exclusive focus on ethnically diverse lifestyle and business imagery. The collection celebrates ethnic and cultural diversity, reflecting the realities of today´s multicultural society.
This is an exciting, young, innovative company that has experienced incredible growth. Owned and operated by 23 successful stock photographers, Blend Images has created a strong photographic community and company culture.
Veer provides visual elements for use in professional creative work, such as graphic design, motion design, advertising, and filmmaking. The image industry is a driving passion for the management and employees of Veer. With thousands of satisfied customers, years of industry experience, and an unparalleled set of skills, the people at Veer have what it takes to deliver exciting, innovative products to enhance creativity. Want to join us?
Our client is a recognized provider of premium photography. Working with top talent and producers, both in studio and on location, they have created imagery across a variety of subjects and themes including still life, portraits, business, beauty, lifestyles, etc. The company is now opening a new division called Assignment Collections.
Newscom serves as a marketplace for more than 20 million photos, graphics, illustrations, cartoons, news and feature stories and video clips. When you work for Newscom, you’ll collaborate with some of the world´s biggest media production companies as well as top content creators like Getty Images, Jupiterimages, AFP, UPI, Wire Image, National Geographic, Splash News and Images.com.
moodboard, the image library with a twist, was founded by Mike Watson, CEO and creator of Digital Vision. The team at moodboard has a proven track record in transforming the stock photography sector as many were at Digital Vision that sold to Getty Images for $165 million in 2005. moodboard brings together the most experienced and professional team in the industry today with the aim of raising the quality and value of stock photography worldwide.
Masterfile Corporation is a global visual content provider, with an exceptional collection of rights-managed and royalty-free stock images.
The images, covering a wide range of subjects, are stored digitally, showcased, licensed and delivered instantly to commercial clients worldwide via the Internet.
OnRequest cuts staff, targets profitability: OnRequest Images laid off 8 staffers this week, part of a restructuring that the company hopes will position it for profitability early next year. CEO David Norris declined to disclose total employment at the 5-year-old company, but said the layoff impacted less than 10% of staff. 3 employees in Seattle, an employee in Denver and 4 sales staffers were included in the cuts. VP of Sales Mark Mansfield also lost his job.
Behind the image, My birthday present from Henri: It was my birthday and Henri asked me what I would like as a present and I told him that I would be so happy if he would make an autoportrait of himself in drawing. He sat on our bed with a mirror posed in front of himself when all of a sudden I saw the triple image that ensued. He was so concentrated and focused on what he was doing that I don't think he even realised that I had photographed him. I did not publish the photograph until his 90th birthday. Even I was wary of photographing Henri as I knew he did not really like it. Then one day he asked me to make a passport photograph of himself and from then on it was a joke between us: "Just a passport photo." Martine Franck/Magnum (abbrev.).
(The Power of Photography - from the view of photojournalists)
Pino Granata is one of the contributors. The first post is named "Noi e la Fotografia".
The Photo Industry News section starts with "C'è poco da festeggiare": "Corbis, la mega-agenzia di Bill Gates, nei giorni scorsi ha fatto un bel party. Per celebrare le esequie di Sygma, e dei reportage di qualità."
Even readers not familiar with the italian language will quickly understand the subject.
Are you passionate about researching, editing, producing and delivering compelling stock photography? Do you enjoy supporting the efforts of a team of editors, content publishers and licensing experts?
If so, consider joining the Image Acquisitions Group, a company-wide photo acquisition and editing service.
At least one key Yahoo executive was unswayed by Friday´s revival meeting featuring Steve Jobs: Stewart Butterfield, the founder and general manager. Butterfield, Valleywag has learned, plans to leave to, well, spend more time with his family. Yahoo, too, might have a claim on Butterfield´s devotion, in the midst of a precarious revamp. But Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, while a big supporter of Flickr himself, is not nearly as cute. No word on whether Butterfield´s wife, Caterina Fake, now a high-ranking Yahoo executive, plans any move, or who will replace Butterfield at Flickr.
Veer provides visual elements for use in professional creative work, such as graphic design, motion design, advertising, and filmmaking. The image industry is a driving passion for the management and employees of Veer.
With thousands of satisfied customers, years of industry experience, and an unparalleled set of skills, the people at Veer have what it takes to deliver exciting, innovative products to enhance creativity. Want to join us?
The MyWire Photo Encyclopedia is a digital collection of photographs from the world’s top photographers in an encyclopedic format. Each encyclopedic entry contains 50 to 100 photos, and accompanying text provides a rich photojournalistic experience. Similar to Wikipedia in potential size the Encyclopedia can grow to several million entries. The goal of the Encyclopedia is to have the world’s best and iconic images for each entry.
James West of Alamy today in "Novel Use Scheme - money from unusual places" (abbreviated), the second announcement within two days:
Alamy is often approached by organisations requesting licences that
fall outside of our standard price model. Sometimes these may be deals involving a high volume of sales at a low
price, other times we have ideas for selling images in new and unusual
ways that we don’t feel we can pursue without your consent.
Previously
Alamy has turned these deals down and filed these ideas away.
Fresh on the scene in 2007 with a collection of over 1 million
pictures, ImagePick is a brand new, dynamic, exciting start-up for high quality commercial Royalty Free content, founded by the two seasoned industry professionals Lawrence Gould & Tom Donnelly.
ImagePick currently has job vacancies for highly motivated sales professionals:
I laughed when I read Alan Meckler's blog post that Midstock was dead - not because I think he´s wrong (he is) - but because LuckyOliver has the
industry talking about what we´re doing in little over a year. Midstock is alive and well. Over the next year you will see many new companies enter into this space. It's good for both buyers and sellers. (Bryan Zmijewski in "Midstock Dead?")
We doubt that current microstock customers are going to leave this tier and jump to midstock. As for midstock, I think it is a concept whose time "has not come". In other words the midstock price point is really too expensive for the evolving stock photo market place. Midstock sounds exciting but it might already be dead. (Alan Meckler in "What Is Midstock and Is It Already Dead?")
James West, CEO of Alamy, today in "Pricing - the Alamy way", worth to be quoted at full length:
As a general trend, prices across our industry are falling and
appear set to continue to do so. This downward pressure ranges from
mild to extreme and results from one or more of the following:
An abundance of images on the market
Customer consolidation (mergers and takeovers in the publishing world)
Aggressive pricing strategies in some stock agencies
To my knowledge the first stock photo industry press release ever explicitly linking to a company related video on YouTube. Very soon other agencies will follow, not only attaching images, but links to web videos about their agency and the work. (look at 01:15)
Thousands of photojournalists attended Visa pour l’Image in Perpignan. In contrast to previous years not even one single great video depicting the atmosphere of the festival and the imagery is availabe on the internet, except for these three small impressions from Luiz Carvalho/4SEE agency (1/2) and this TV5Monde episode. So far for video journalism and thus today no footage with Perpignan impressions worth to be displayed.
Here´s instead a video from Portland, OR, based photographer Ed Gowans about The Art of Food Photography, portraying in detail an assignment. "I don´t think I´ve ever seen a more complicated lighting set up in my life!", commented a viewer. -No microstock.
Ten days ago Corbis announced the new "I am buried" marketing campaign and quickly received a lot of criticism from photographers and graphics designers for the Terms&Conditions of the contest.
I asked Corbis to express their opinion on these negative reactions and the company responded that "The rules of the Corbis "I am Buried" promotion are standard and
consistent with other online contests".
