Recent Stock Photo Industry Press Releases

Library and Archives Canada Brings Content to Flickr and YouTube

Ontario, Canada, Oct. 30, 2008. Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce that in anticipation of the 2008 Irish Studies Symposium, that will be presented on November 3 and 4, 2008, a selection of digital images related to Irish-Canadian documentary heritage are now available on Flickr.com, a popular photo-sharing community.

As well, a selection of video presentations from the upcoming Symposium will be added to YouTube.com in November 2008.

Mary Evans represents Francis Frith Collection

London, UK, Oct. 08, 2008. Mary Evans Picture Library is delighted to announce that it has recently added to its web site over 12,000 images from the prestigious and well-loved Francis Frith Collection in a new agreement that sees the historical specialist agency bring this incomparable collection to a wider market.

Charting the social and topographical history of the British Isles from 1860 to 1970, the Francis Frith Collection is an unrivalled chronicle of life through one of the most dynamic periods of history, representing transport, fashion, leisure, trade, industry and royalty alongside the core of topographical images for which it is so well known.

Mary Evans launches The Castle Howard Collection

London, UK, Sept. 01, 2008. Mary Evans Picture Library, the leading source for historical images, is delighted to announce its newest collaboration - exclusive worldwide representation of the magnificent collection of Castle Howard in Yorkshire.

One of Britain's finest and best-loved stately homes, Castle Howard, known to film buffs as the fictional Brideshead in Evelyn Waugh's "Brideshead Revisited", was built for Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle between 1699 and 1712. Designed by John Vanburgh, later the architect of Blenheim Palace, and assisted by the experienced Nicholas Hawksmoor, Castle Howard was the first private house in England to be endowed with a grand dome which crowns the lavish Baroque structure.

The Bridgeman Art Library represents Europe’s Best Museum

London, UK, June 13, 2008. Kumu Art Museum, the new incarnation of the Art Museum of Estonia, has been declared the winner of the 2008 European Museum of the Year Award.

38 of the 140 candidates were given the opportunity to introduce their museums at the event held in the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin and the total number of participating countries was 20.

Mary Evans Picture Library unlocks the nation's past with The History Album

London, UK, May 21, 2008. Mary Evans Picture Library, the specialist source for images of history, is proud to annouce its new user generated content website, The History Album. Launched at the National History Show at Olympia, in London, earlier this month, The History Album is designed to bring to light photographs which form a unique view of our heritage and would otherwise remain unseen.

The library, which has been supplying publishing and the media with historical pictures for over forty years, is bringing its expertise within the image industry to provide a platform for viewing, uploading, sharing, annotating and printing the pictures which have for years lain undiscovered in keepsake boxes, albums and attics around the country.

The Francis Frith Collection launches new website

Teffont, UK, Apr. 25, 2008. How often do you look at old photographs and wonder about the people seen in them? So many historical images show nameless people, captured for a moment in time before they moved out of frame and back into their lives.

Now you can find out a little more about some of the faces from the past on the new photo library website of The Francis Frith Collection.

The well-known Collection contains some 365,000 fine-quality vintage images, taken by the company photographers between 1860 and 1970, of nearly 7,000 cities, towns and villages across Britain.

The photographs have been used to illustrate over 800 local history books, and the general public have been invited to ‘Share Your Memories’ online via the main website of the company.

Barnado´s historic photographic library goes digital on TopFoto

London, UK, Mar. 26, 2008. Barnardo´s unique historical image archive is being brought bang up to date and will be put on high quality digital format by leading picture library TopFoto.co.uk. Started by the charity’s founder Thomas Barnardo back in the early 1870’s, the archive is a complete photographic record of Barnardo’s children from the dirty, destitute boys dressed in rags that were taken in to the first home in Stepney Causeway to the shiny faced babies at Babies Castle in Kent.

There are half a million photos in the archive collection, which form a unique document of British social history. Evocative, sad and moving, from the very beginning the photographs were an essential part of Thomas Barnardo’s crusade to rescue destitute children. Work had begun setting up the East End Juvenile Mission in 1868, within two years the services of a photographer had been engaged and by 1874 a formal photographic department had been set up.

Emilio Segre Visual Archives Announces New Online Gallery

Every picture tells a story. We' ve picked 63 of our favorites

College Park, MD, Mar. 13, 2008.  Visit our new Favorite Photos gallery featuring the most popular and striking selections from our collection of more than 30,000 images of physicists and astronomers.

The Emilio Segre Visual Archives site includes historical photographs, slides, lithographs, engravings, and other visual materials of many of the best known names in physics and astronomy, including Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Marie Curie, Isaac Newton, Richard Feynman and Hans Bethe, along with other lesser known figures.

East meets West at The Bridgeman Art Library

London, UK, Jan. 25, 2008. Coinciding with The Royal Academy´s landmark Russian exhibition, From Russia, The Bridgeman Art Library is pleased to report that, in the art imagery world, the relationship between East and West continues to run smoothly and that licensing opportunities for Russian art are plentiful.

Since 1997, the library has held images from the State Russian Museum, when Harriet Bridgeman, Chairman, visited the museum to create a licensing agreement and select the images.

"It was a privilege to be granted entry to the vaults, to select the transparencies from the museum", says Harriet Bridgeman. "The Russian museum workers who guided me were proof that the language of art transcends communication barriers, as it was they, as much as me, who selected certain images over others. The resulting collection that we hold represents a collaboration between East and West."

Mary Evans joins forces with The Illustrated London News Picture Library

London, UK, Jan. 03, 2007. Mary Evans Picture Library, the UK´s leading source of historical images is delighted to announce that it is now exclusively managing and housing one of the greatest sources of 19th and 20th century history, The Illustrated London News Picture Library.

The picture library, one of the most important magazine archives in the country, will remain under the ownership of the customer publishing and digital agency, Illustrated London News Limited, which has just completed a management buyout from its former parent company, Sea Containers.