Photo Archive News

Rare Florence Nightingale Photo Exceeds Top Estimate

A section of the Florence Nightingale Photograph

A rare photograph of Florence Nightingale has been sold by UK auctioneers Dreweatts for £5,500, 10 times its top estimate.

See the full report on Newbury Today.

Steve: The Museum Social Tagging Project

'Steve is a collaboration of museum professionals and others who believe that social tagging may provide profound new ways to describe and access museum collections and encourage visitor enagement with museum objects'.

www.steve.museum

Paparazzi Restrictions IN L.A.

The Los Angeles Times blog, L.A. Now reports:
L.A. moves to crack down on paparazzi

Celebrities could drop their children off at school and visit their doctors without fear of being accosted by paparazzi under a proposal introduced by a city councilman this week.

Full article here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com

HarperCollins And WSJ Start Publishing Project

HarperCollins Publishers and The Wall Street Journal have announced the formation of a three-year publishing partnership to develop books written by the Journal’s expert editors and reporters across a variety of topics for a wide range of readers.

Google Provide 'LIFE' Photo Archive Search

The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination; The Mansell Collection from London; Dahlstrom glass plates of New York and environs from the 1880s; and the entire works left to the collection from LIFE photographers Alfred Eisenstaedt, Gjon Mili, and Nina Leen.
These are just some of the things you'll see in Google Image Search now.
We're excited to announce the availability of never-before-seen images from the LIFE photo archive. This effort to bring offline images online was inspired by our mission to organize all the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. This collection of newly-digitized images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s.

View the collection here: http://images.google.com/hosted/life

RACER Magazine Celebrates 200 Issues

Haymarket’s US-based motorsports monthly, RACER, celebrates its 200th issue with an examination of racing’s past, present and future.

plainpicture - Mini Magazines

plainpicture presents 5 pocket sized journals, designed in typical magazine format.

'The issues imitate the graphic style of editorial titles and cover some common
themes which include dogs, northern travel, food, psychology and camping.
The plainpicture mini-magazines are created as style guides containing a strong
image selection. This shows the variety of subjects and concepts within the
collection as well as presenting different styles of photography'.

All issues of the mini-magazines can be ordered on the
plainpicture website for free: www.plainpicture.com/magazines

Now Buying - Christie's Photographs Sale

Christie’s London Photographs Sale in November 2008
Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Christie’s King Street

Full detail and sale highlights here: www.christies.com/presscenter/pdfk

Now Showing - World Press Photo Exhibition

© World Press Photo

World Press Photo 2008 Exhibition (LONDON) is at Level 2 Foyer, Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre from 13 November to 8 December.
FREE
Since 1955, World Press Photo has invited press photographers of the world to participate in the premier annual international competition in press photography.

www.southbankcentre.co.uk/worldpress

www.worldpressphoto.org

Photo Agency X17 Capture 'Lohan' Flour Bomb Attack

Click to view stills & video

x17online quotes:
'So, in case you haven't heard, Lindsay Lohan was attacked with a bag of flour by a PETA anti-fur activist in Paris on Friday'...

'And boy, did she get covered in the stuff!'

Alamy Provide 'ReadyImages' To CCC

Alamy, has teamed up with rights licensing experts Copyright Clearance Center to help create a revolutionary new way for corporations to access pre-licensed images for internal business uses.
ReadyImages is a corporate-wide subscription service that offers a simple search, select and download process. Alamy has provided more than 1.3 million keyword-searchable professional images to the service.

PGA Staff Photographers Select Best 2008 Images

PGATOUR.COM asked Stan Badz, Chris Condon and Caryn Levy, the TOUR's three staff photographers, to select their favorite 10 images they snapped in 2008 and explain why they picked each one. Learn more about Badz and the images that he chose.

Stan Badz is a Photo Official/Senior Staff Photographer who has been with the PGA TOUR for over 15 years. He travels to over 20 events per year covering all three Tours. His work has been published in all of the major golf publications.
www.pgatour.com

BBC Motion Gallery - New Sports Sales Manager

BBC Worldwide has appointed Matt Wills as its new Sports Sales Manager for BBC Motion Gallery, the company’s international clip licensing arm.
Wills will be responsible for managing the promotion and sales of the BBC Motion Gallery Sports Catalogue across the Asia-Pacific, Americas, UK & Ireland, Benelux, Scandinavia and the Northern Med regions.

PLUS Adopted By Major Publishers

Three major publishers have called for the adoption of the PLUS (Picture Licensing Universal System) standards by picture archives, photographersand all other image suppliers.

LAT And BPI Provide F1 Victory Photos

Lewis Hamilton’s recent World Championship success made Formula One front page news – and it was Haymarket photo agencies LAT and Back Page Images (BPI) that provided the photograph.

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Paris Photo: 13-16 November 2008

© Rinko Kawauchi - Untitled, from the series of "UTATANE", 2001 - Courtesy of the artist and FOIL GALLERY,Tokyo

Paris Photo, one of the top photography fairs, starts later this week in Paris. This year the event boasts about 100 galleries and publishers from around the world.

See what's going on here.

Exhibition: DestinAsian

© Saibal Das/ Drik India/Majority World

6 - 16 November 2008
Viewfinder Photography Gallery
London, SE10 8RS

Photographers from Majority World are contributing to an exhibition illustrating journeys to and from the Indian subcontinent, themes of migration and identity, or the evolution of Asian culture from the traditional to the multicultural.

JupiterImages Sold To Getty Images - $96

BREAKING NEWS.......

Jupitermedia Corporation (Nasdaq: JUPM) ("Jupitermedia") announced today that it has entered into a definitive stock purchase agreement to sell its Online Images business to Getty Images, Inc. for an aggregate purchase price of $96 million in cash.
Under the terms of and subject to the conditions set forth in the stock purchase agreement, Jupitermedia has agreed to sell all of the outstanding capital stock of Jupiterimages Corporation ("Jupiterimages"), an Arizona corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary, to Getty Images, Inc.

John Frost 1920 - 2008

John Frost, the creator of the John Frost Newspaper Archive, has died at the age of 88.

John was born in Paddington, London in April 1920 and grew up in Notting Hill where, in 1930, he bought his first newspaper which started a life's work of collecting important newspaper editions. The paper he bought reported on the R101 Airship Disaster (the British built rigid airship crashed on October 5, 1930, in France, during its maiden overseas voyage, killing 48 people).

On the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 he was called up on the first day and served with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps and 11th Armoured Division. He took his newspaper collecting obsession with him as he travelled the world. He traded a packet of cigarettes for the Archive's most valuable newspaper, a German edition announcing Hitler's death.

In a letter his Mother sent to him whilst serving abroad she wrote , "Hurry up and get home, we are saving newspapers and piling them up in your bedroom, it's getting out of control!"....

After the war John had various jobs but carried on collecting interesting and historical newspapers.

In 1980 he decided to concentrate on dealing with the amount of requests for newspapers he was getting full time and formed the John Frost Newspaper Archive. He handed the business over to his son Andrew in 1988.

John was active in the business, his son Andrew told PAN "he was still popping into the archive three months ago and helping with obscure requests two weeks ago!"

John was also the current news editor of the Finest Hour the magazine of the International Churchill Society.

John Frost died of kidney cancer on October 16 2008. His funeral is in London tomorrow.

www.johnfrostnewspapers.co.uk

Glasshouse Images: New Contributors

Glasshouse Images welcomes three new contributors this month: Alberto Guglielmi, Kiyoshi Togashi and Abra Klinger.

View the selection here.

Glasshouse Images is a boutique stock photo and representation agency that caters to a select group of creatives who are always on the look out for exceptional and distinctive imagery.

6th Annual Lucie Awards:Winners

New York City again hosted the 6th Annual Lucie Awards in a gala black-tie ceremony and awards programme.

Amongst those honoured were Brent Stirton claiming International Photographer of the Year Award and Visa Pour L'image, Perpignan receiving the Spotlight Award for specific achievements of an individual, organisation or corporation whose endeavours have significantly changed the landscape of photography.

See the full list of Awards

New Collections At the Image Works

The Image Works are now representing six new collections in North America:
AKG Images (Germany),
The British Museum of Natural History (Great Britain)
Photo12 (France)
Auscape Natural History Archive (Australia)
The Imperial Iranian Archive
Majority World

View them at The Image Works

Salon de la Photo 2008

Salon de la Photo 2008 will run from 13th to 17th November at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles in Paris.

Intending to be more than just an exhibition of photographic products, it is aiming to be a place for "communication and sharing" between people and companies involved in image capture, processing software, prints and printing. To find out more click here.

Advertising Archives Add Rare Collections

The Advertising Archives have added several new and rare collections of artwork to their existing range of UK and US Press adverts and Magazine art.

These include distinctive early 20th Century French imagery from Theatre Magazine, Le Sourire and Vie Parisienne; very rare Spanish Magazine art from the 1920s/30s including Mundo Grafico, Blanco y Negro and Nuevo Mundo and a vast range of stunning British artwork from the 1950's story illustrations of John Bull Magazine, for which they hold the sole rights.

View John Bull collection.

BBC Motion Gallery Available In China

BBC Motion Gallery, the archive clips sales arm of BBC Worldwide, have formed a strategic alliance with CITVC, the commercial arm of China Central Television (CCTV) the country's largest national broadcaster, to represent BBC Motion Gallery sales to Chinese markets.

Reuters Look To Bump Up Photo Content....

from the Reuters Blog - Our Take On Your Take

Where are you going to be on election day?

'Do you want to show the world what it looks like from your voting station?'
'We are inviting citizen photojournalists to send in their best photographs related to the presidential election.'

Here

Dennis Buy Bit-Tech.net

London: Dennis Publishing has acquired technology website bit-tech.net

'Currently owned by Bit Publishing, the acquisition of bit-tech.net will further bolster the Dennis Publishing technology portfolio of magazines and websites, which includes brands such as PC Pro, itpro.co.uk, knowyourmobile.co.uk and iGizmo. The acquisition of bit-tech.net will boost the total traffic levels of the online Dennis Publishing technology portfolio from 2.3m to 3.35m unique visitors.'

CR Blog - Redesign

UK: Visual communications magazine 'Creative Review' have today presented the redesign of their busy blog, CR Blog.

'We know how sharply observant our readers are, so you’ve probably noticed that the blog looks different today. It’s been redesigned to bring it more in line with the look of the magazine and, we hope, generally make it cleaner and easier to read.'

Take a tour Here

Photoshelter Offer to DRR Members

'We want to be able to help you with your business continuity. So we've created a special offer for Digital Railroad users only, which provides you with three months of free service as well as a method to FTP your images from DRR to your PhotoShelter account.'

Here's the gist of the offer:
- Sign up for an annual PhotoShelter Personal Archive 2.0 account
- Provide us with proof that you're a DRR member
- We will then credit your PhotoShelter account with an additional 3-months free
- We will provide you with FTP instructions on how to move your archive to PhotoShelter

Full details on the Photoshelter blog: Here

Be-hold Live Auction 30th October

Lot 127

The new Be-hold auction, No. 52, internet/live auction will take place on October 30th.

www.be-hold.com

New Board Member At Alamy

Stock photo site Alamy has appointed Tim Pearson as a non-executive director to to provide an 'additional perspective on strategy and corporate governance.'

He was CEO of RM, the leading provider of IT solutions to UK schools, colleges and universities, from 2002 until September 2008 and held a number of senior technical and service management positions at the company since 1981.

A past chairman of the Internet Service Providers Association, he attended the Harvard University Business School Advanced Management Program.

The Marsden Archive - 2009 Calendars

THE HAUNTED REALM - 2009 & DRACULA - 2009

New calendars of Simon Marsden's photography Here

Creative Contemporary Photojournalism

The second issue of online photojournalism magazine Lunatic is now online
Here

Lunatic was created in 2007 by Karl Blanchet, photographer and member of the collective Luna.

Metro - New Website

London photo printing lab Metro have launched a new website:
'New features include a Technical Help section where customers can read in detail about the Materials and Techniques used at Metro. We also offer Colour Management advice to customers wishing to send us Online prints, or just wanting to learn more, and there is plenty of information about all our printing services along with the usual prices. In fact, you may notice that we have reordered and simplified all our services to make it easier to find your way around.'
www.metroimaging.co.uk

Sodapix Celebrate Two Years

Swiss picture agency Sodapix is celebrating its second anniversary.

They have created a memory game online, showcasing some of their 'Sodastyle' images. How fast can you do it?
www.sodapix.com

Imense Launch Automated Keywording

imense , Cambridge based software developers, will launch an automated keywording product at the PACA (Picture Archive Council of America) conference in New York on 24th October.

Berliner & Rex Merge To Take On US Market

Alan Berliner and John Selby (photo) announce the merger of the Berliner group of companies and Rex Features' North America operations.

John Selby, Managing Director of Rex Features, said: “I very much look forward to working even more closely with Alan, Alex and all the staff at Berliner. Our shared business philosophy, combined skills, knowledge and experience will create a synergy which will allow us to deliver an unrivalled service to all our customers”.

Shutterstock 'Red Carpet' Programme Growing

Subscription-based online stock photo agency Shutterstock now has over 100,000 royalty-free entertainment/celebrity editorial images due to the growth of it's Red Carpet photo programme, Shutterstock on the Red Carpet™.

Shutterstock/RedCarpet

Image Source - The New Website

"Quicker. Easier. Brighter. Better."

Image Source, have launched a brand new website.

Digital Railroad IN Trouble?!

Digital Railroad is possibly in liquidation... a DRR employee told photoarchivenews.com this morning, "I received a call last night telling me I no longer had a job, the company has laid off all executive staff, only support staff remain and an independent company has been brought in to effectively take over."

Announcement on the DRR blog: Here
The company running DRR now: Here

more as we get it.......

People On The Move: Russ O'Connell

Bauer

After nearly 7 years at heat magazine Russ O'Connell (photo right) is leaving to join leading music magazine Q as their new Picture Director.

More about Q magazine here: Q current issue

Website Relaunch: Nuts.co.uk

IPC: Britain's best-selling men's weekly, has hard launched a great new look, introducing easier navigation and a host of new content channels for its rapidly growing audience.

http://www.nuts.co.uk/

Talk: Four Photographers And The Olympics

Samy's Camera and Nikon will be hosting a lecture by SportsShooter.com members Mar, Beck, McDonough, and Hanashiro, four renowned sports photographers who recently returned from the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.

'Credit Crunch' Illustrated

SPIEGEL ONLINE INTERNATIONAL reports:

The Best and Worst of Financial Crisis Photography.

Charles Hawley writes: The world's photojournalists have been doing their best to find original ways to illustrate the global financial crisis. Some of their effors have been commendable - others, not. SPIEGEL ONLINE has collected the best of the best, and some of the worst.

Read the whole article at www.spiegel.de/international

Exhibition: Breaking News: 140 Years Of The Press Association

To celebrate 140 years of the Press Association, the UK's national news agency, the National Media Museum in Bradford presents its forthcoming display, Breaking News: 140 Years of the Press Association, which opens on the Museum's Level Five on 18 October 2008.

Responsible for covering every major news event since 1868, the Press Association marks its anniversary with a display that will give visitors a definitive insight into the workings of a news agency. It will detail how, through a network of reporters, photographers and video journalists, the Press Association gathers and delivers 'breaking news' to the UK media at the touch of a button.

Lucie Week In New York

6th Annual LUCIE AWARDS and Lucie Foundation along with APERTURE Foundation celebrate LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHERS during Lucie week in New York.

Various events are scheduled prior to Photographers being honored
on Monday, October 20, 2008, 6:00 p.m. at the Lincoln Center

A New Source Of RM Photography

International Collections Worldwide, Inc, announced the creation of the new RM source ic.worldwide.

In a break from current stock photography trends, IC represents a tightly edited collection of photography purposefully selected to celebrate visual impact, quality over quantity, and diversity for those who prefer images as original and creative as their concepts.

Festival Of Photography At National Library Of Wales

© Robert Haines

Lens 4: A sense of Place takes place on the 1st November at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.

This is the fourth instalment of Lens: Festival of Documentary Photography, celebrating Welsh documentary photography. The festival aims to highlight the vast photographic collection held at the library and celebrates the work of four contemporary photographers currently working in Wales. The line-up will include: Robert Haines, Jeremy Moore, Paul Cabuts and Haydn Denman

Simon Norfolk Confirmed At VISION 2008

© Simon Norfolk

“If I see another photo of a starving baby in Africa, I will die,” says Simon Norfolk. “I want to know why there is still a starving baby inAfrica.” The War on War

Simon Norfolk will be speaking at Vision 2008. Europe's only event dedicated to aspiring professionals and early career photographers.
Friday 7th November, Business Design Centre, London N1.

'Take A Break' UK's No 1 Women's Weekly

The latest ABC figures see H. Bauer's title Take a Break remaining the top selling women's weekly magazine.
With sales of 981,504, Take a Break outstips its nearest rival at the newsstands by almost double the amount of copies sold each week.

www.bauer.co.uk

Exhibition: This Is War! Robert Capa At Work

The Barbican Art Gallery, London, presents an Exhibition of Robert Capa's work called "This Is War!" as part of a reflection on conflict.

17 October 2008 to 25 January 2009

www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery

BPPA: 'Photographs By Richard Mills'

click to view the slideshow

BPPA: The British Press Photographers' Association have uploaded a slideshow of the work of Richard Mills.

www.thebppa.com

Photolibrary Speaks Out After SAA Allegations

The Chairman of the Photolibrary Group, Tim Moore, issued a statement "setting the record straight" about its continuing programme of payments of legacy royalties to IndexStock contributors. This follows the SAA's (Stock Artists Alliance) comments about IndexStock. (see article below SAA Finds Ongoing Issues With Photolibrary 2 October 2008)

Mr Moore stated that Photolibrary inherited (and willingly accepted) its obligation to pay outstanding royalties to IndexStock contributors when the Company purchased IndexStock in late 2006.

'The Future Of Contemporary Photography' Screening

The Future of Contemporary Photography: The New York Photo Festival 2008 is a new short documentary that premieres at the PDN PhotoPlus expo on Thursday, 23 October 2008 in New York.

Mary Evans Represents Francis Frith

Eastbourne, the Pier 1910

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.

New Photo Library - Springboard Images

Springboard Images is a contemporary, innovative collection of creative abstract imagery, founded by photographers Chris Windsor and Roz Woodward.
Drawing on both gritty urban reality and beautiful natural environments, from forests to the seashore, Springboard offers a wide range of vibrant images.

25 Years Of The Image Works

The Image Works celebrates 25 years in business by adding four new collections to their archive.
Founded in 1983 by two photographers, it has grown to become one of the oldest independent editorial stock photo agencies in the United States.

The four new collections are AKG Images (Germany), the British Museum of Natural History (Great Britain), Photo 12 (France) and the Auscape Natural History Archive (Australia).

www.theimageworks.com

Exhibition: My America, Christopher Morris

HOST gallery presents My America, an exhibition of photographs by Christopher Morris to coincide with the run up to the US presidential election, on 4 November 2008.
Bringing together work from his coverage of both the first and second presidential campaign trails of President George W Bush, as well as work from the recent campaigns of both Barack Obama and John McCain, Morris’s privileged viewpoint offers a penetrating doubletake, operating in the space between the sleek and the stark.

Until 15 November.

1 Honduras Street
London
EC1Y 0TH
T: 0207 253 2770
Full details here www.hostgallery.co.uk

Rare Collection Of Photographic Books Donated To US College

A remarkable group of photographic books and journals, assembled by the late Marjorie and Leonard Vernon, leading Los Angeles photography collectors, has been donated to Scripps College, California.

The collection is of particular interest for the many rare and out-of-print volumes it contains, as well as the number and variety of photographic journals.

"The large clusters of books on key 20th century figures such as Walker Evans, Andreas Feininger, Andre Kértész, and Lazlo Moholy-Nagy are very special....." said Associate Professor of Art History Mary MacNaughton.

LFI - New Location

Celebrity photo agency London Features International have completed a move to new offices (photo) in North London.

The new address is:
Image House
Station Road
London
N17 9LR

+44 207 723 4204 or sales@lfi.co.uk

Keep up to date with LFI via their blog: LondonFeaturesBlog

Fleet Street Photographer Ian Showell Dies

The guardian.co.uk reports:

Photographer Ian Showell dies, aged 59

Daily Star photographer Ian Showell has died from cancer.

The 59-year-old, who also worked for the Press Association and Today newspaper over a 40-year Fleet Street career, died in his sleep while being cared for at a hospice in the early hours of Monday.
Full article here: www.guardian.co.uk

Dennis Acquires Digital SLR Photography Mag

Dennis Publishing announced the acquisition of the monthly magazine Digital SLR Photography.
Currently owned by Halo Publishing, this will be the first photography title in the Dennis Publishing portfolio and marks a move into a new sector for the company.

Blue Plaque For Bert Hardy

Photographer Bert Hardy has been awarded a coveted Blue Plaque by Southwark Council, London.

The Blue Plaque will be unveiled at Priory Buildings at 2.30pm on Sunday 12th October 2008.

Bert Hardy 1913 - 1995
Bert, born and brought up in Southwark, became star photographer on Picture Post magazine. He won an Encyclopedia Britannica Award for his images of life around South East London's Elephant & Castle area. In latter years he set up a photographic studio just around the corner from where he was born in Priory Mews and sustained a successful career in advertising photography.

Terry Fincher - Fleet Street Photographer - Dies

Ex-Daily Herald, Daily Express and Keystone photographer Terry Fincher died this morning.
He had been ill for some time and his death follows only a few weeks after that of his wife, June.
Terry covered many conflicts including Egypt, Pakistan, Biafra and Aden. In Biafra his intervention secured the release of two British businessmen, already badly beaten by their captors, and undoubtedly saved their lives. Terry won several press awards including a World Press Award for his coverage of the Vietnam War, had his own column The Fincher File in the Daily Express and set up the agency Photographer’s International which he ran jointly with his daughter, photographer Jayne Fincher.

Terry was born at Oving, near Alysbury in 1931 and started out as a runner with Keystone Press in 1945.

Click to see images of Terry at the Getty Gallery this year and a further selection of his images here: GettyImages/TerryFincher

Free News Content For Education 'Usage'

Picture shows: Trevor McDonald meeting Nelson Mandela

Over 3,000 hours of historic news footage from ITN’s archive division, ITN Source, have been made available to further and higher education institutes in the UK, giving educators and students cost-free access to a century of video material.

www.nfo.ac.uk

New RM 'Home' Images From Look

LOOK Photography, a California based, photo agency specializing in Home and Architectural imagery, has launched a new RM image collection, SHELTERED Images.

Still Pictures Move Sales Office

Still Pictures have moved their sales office to Bristol.
UK client enquiries will now go to Tom Walmsley, Julie-Anne Wilce and Ruth Garner (tel. 01275 375520, all other details stay the same). They are planning new marketing initiatives that will actively promote both the new RF collection and the RM archive.

Getty Continue With PicScout

PicScout announcd their contract renewal for continued content monitoring with Getty Images.
According to the contract, PicScout will remain the exclusive visual tracking service provider for detecting Getty Images' copyright infringement cases.

SAA Find Ongoing Issues With Photolibrary

Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) investigations find ongoing issues with Photolibrary's Index Stock payments.

SAA Press Release:
September 30, 2008. Since last November, when Photolibrary's controller alleged the company had failed to acknowledge and pay debts the company knew were owed Index Stock contributors, Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) has sought to investigate the issues raised. SAA intervened and we continue our efforts in the fervent belief all licensing fees due photographers should be paid in full.

Instyle Mag Gets A Makeover

UK - IPCMedia: Fashion and style bible In Style will be revealing a redesign from the November issue, including a new-look cover and new features.

Following several months of research, the new look emphasises In Style's unrivalled celebrity access and fashion expertise and gives even better service and value to fashion savvy readers.

Exhibition: Diego Ortiz Mugica

The Consulate General of Argentina in New York is hosting a retrospective of works by Argentine photographer Diego Ortiz Mugica from Tuesday 7 October to 30 October 2008.

AeroGRID - 'One-Stop Geoshop'

AeroGRID, a new partnership that delivers high-resolution aerial photography from across Europe and beyond.
AeroGRID founding partners are AeroData of Belgium, Getmapping from the UK, and GeoContent from Germany; each holds nationwide coverage for their respective countries and more with total coverage exceeding 1.5m sq km including the homes of more than 300m people.
The aerial imagery is available in a number of different custom formats as specified by customers and online through the AeroGRID website.
www.aerogrid.net

Camera Press: Exclusive Oz Mag Content Rights

Camera Press is now syndicating images and text from Australia's leading magazine publisher ACP.
Focusing on its celebrity, real life and interior content Camera Press is able to offer key features exclusively to the UK market from popular ACP titles including Woman's Day, Dolly, Ralph, Cleo, Real Living, Belle and Australian House and Garden.

View examples of the ACP content here: www.camerapress.com/ACP/ACP.htm

Rex Expands Features and Digital Teams

Kelly Wilby and Dean Murray have joined the busy feature sales team at Rex Features and Toni Saint has joined to develop sales with web clients in the rapidly growing digital arena.

Jerry Tavin ASPP 2008 Picture Professional Of The Year

The American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) has named Jerry Tavin as its 2008 Picture Professional of the Year.

He is known for his devotion to maintaining the highest standards in the business of stock photography and never compromising on quality and ethics. ASPP Board member, Michael Masterson, reflects the opinion of many colleagues by saying: "In my own experience, Jerry has been a steady friend, ally and mentor, always supportive, caring, enthusiastic and incredibly knowledgeable. There is no one in our industry that is more deserving of this honor."

VIEW Launch New Website

VIEW announce the launch of their new website.

The site has been upgraded and improved with a number of new features including a new online price calculator, self-service high-resolution download facility and secure online payment.

www.viewpictures.co.uk

Book: Dave Hogan - "Access All Areas"

Dave Hogan - Celebrity Sun Photographer - A behind the scenes look at his Fascinating Career

More than just a collection of his most famous photographs; Dave Hogan chronicles the tales behind the pictures, how he partied with Robbie Williams, his first meetings with Sir Bob Geldof and Bono and how he was famously run over by Madonna and appeared on the front page of The Sun with the headline 'Maimed by Madonna'.

Book: James Mollison - 'The Disciples'

'The Disciples' by James Mollison, published by Chris Boot

Between 2004 and 2007, James Mollison attended pop concerts across Europe and the USA with a mobile photography studio, inviting fans of each music star or band to pose for their portrait outside the gig.

He subsequently combined portraits of 8-10 fans for each performer into a single line up, making a single panoramic image in each case. A total of over 500 individual portraits, in 58 panoramic images have been included in this book.

New Sports Photo Editor at LA Times

'George Wilhelm has been promoted to Sports Photo Editor.
George has worked as a photo editor in Sports on a temporary basis for five years and has demonstrated strong skills and a wealth of knowledge while directing our Sports photo coverage.'

Full announcement here: latimesblogs

Nikon And HP Develop High-Res Digital Image Repro System

Working together since 2005, the result of this Nikon and Hewlett-Packard collaboration is a new high-resolution digital imaging system for reproducing fine art.

TopFoto Secure Exclusive Rights Across Royal Archive

© Imperial Iranian Archives / TopFoto

TopFoto is proud to announce that they have secured the exclusive rights to digitise and licence the photographs of the Imperial Iranian Archives.

The picture above is Cuernavaca in southern Mexico. Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran with HIM Shahbanou ( Empress ) Farah of Iran c.1979 - The photo was taken by their son Reza who had come from the United States to see his parents and take this picture back with him.

Photokina: Metadata Working Group

At Photokina this week Adobe, Apple, Canon, Microsoft, Nokia and Sony announced their commitment to solve the interoperability issues between platforms, by tackling metadata and forming the Metadata Working Group.

The Photojournalism Store - Redesign

'The site has been redesigned for optimum viewing

http://thephotojournalismstore.com/

Event: Brand Licensing Europe 2008

Brand Licensing Europe 2008 will be on 1 - 2 October 2008 at The Grand Hall, Olympia, London.

For all those interested in the business of brands, licensed products or consumer trends see their website: www.brandlicensingexpo.com

Alamy To Open US Office

Alamy, the world’s largest online stock photo library, has today announced plans to expand by opening a sales office in the US.
The UK-based company is aiming to grow its US business, particularly in the high value markets, by 30 to 40 per cent a year by establishing a local presence. The move, due to take place early in 2009, is a departure from Alamy’s UK-based sales model and will mean a change to its current commission structure.

Symposium: WildPhotos 2008

WildPhotos 2008, the UK's largest nature photography symposium will be held on 31st October and 1st November at the Royal Geographical Society in London.

Harriet Nimmo, Chief Executive of Wildscreen said, “There is nothing quite like this in the UK. It really is a gathering of the top wildlife photographers in the world — a unique opportunity to meet them, hear them and see their latest work. Testimony to the quality of the event is that such high-profile speakers are willing to join us for this international event.”

Sony Ericsson World View 2008

Sony Ericsson has launched a global blog partnership programme for its mobile camera phone competition World View 2008.
For the first time a select number of bloggers will be invited to become exclusive partners of one of the world’s largest mobile phone camera competitions. Blog partners can display a widget on their site stating that they are an official partner of the global competition. The widget displays rotating photographs that have been entered into the competition.

Exhibition: Dafydd Jones - Party Photos From The 80's

For a chance to see a small exhibition of pictures taken by Dafydd Jones during his time at the Tatler in the 1980's, pop down to Dover street Market, London.
Angela Hill who runs the vintage book and magazine section at the Dover St. market has curated the pictures from prints that were published (and unpublished) in the magazine.
Ground Floor, Dover St. Market, 17-18 Dover Street, London W1S 4LT
www.dafjones.com

Jobs: 2 Positions - BAPLA

1. BAPLA, the UK Trade Association for Picture Libraries and Agencies, is seeking a dynamic Executive Director to lead and develop the organisation during a time of rapid change in the industry.

2. BAPLA the UK Trade Association for Picture Libraries and Agencies requires a confident and experienced Membership and Communications Manager.

Full details of these jobs and others here: P A N Industry Jobs

Microsoft Upgrades Pro Photo Tools

Microsoft have announced an update to its Microsoft Pro Photo Tools, which provides a set of tools for photographers to perform various tasks with their images leveraging the power of Windows and Microsoft Live Local —including RAW captures, geotagging and viewing/editing metadata.

To learn more about this service: www.microsoft.com/prophoto

IPA Announces 2008 Nominees

The International Photography Awards (IPA) announced the Nominees for the International Photographer of the Year, The Discovery of the Year and the Deeper Perspective Award for 2008.

Robert Harding: the 'print' site

Robert Harding have launched a new website www.worldinprint.com, in partnership with Media Storehouse.
This new site gives everyone the opportunity to buy their images reproduced on prints, mugs, t-shirts and large canvases.

Alaska Stock On Celebration Stamp

The US Postal Service revealed Alaska Stock Images owner, Jeff Schultz's photo as the final selection for the new statehood stamp commemorating Alaska's 50th anniversary.
Scheduled to be issued on 2 January 2009, the new stamp features a picture from the Iditarod trail of veteran sled dog racer DeeDee Jonrowe.

This year marks Jeff's 29th year volunteering as the official Iditarod photographer and sharing images from the Last Great Race with mushers, race fans and other volunteers. He commented, "I'm honored that one of my photos was chosen......It's one of my all-time favorite photos from the Iditarod --- DeeDee Jonrowe mushing in the Rainy Pass area at dusk with alpenglow on the Alaska Range..."

www.alaskastock.com

PicApp Adds Content From Newscom

PicApp are to add content from Newscom giving bloggers broader access to high-quality, up-to-date sports, entertainment and breaking news photos.

“Supplying Newscom content to PicApp’s online publisher community gets our broad database of images out there to the masses,” Bill Creighton, managing director, Newscom, said. “We are always looking for new distribution channels but are especially interested in working with outlets like PicApp where we can ensure that our creators’ content will be used legally when posted online.”

www.picapp.com

John Haynes At The 'Lebrecht 2008 Garden Party'

Photographs by © Joe Wong

John Haynes, theatre photographer for over 40 years and represented exclusively by Lebrecht, enthralled his audience at the annual Lebrecht Garden Party with his experiences in the Royal Court Theatre and other theatre companies.

Full 'Party' report and more pics on the Lebrecht Blog here: http://lebrecht.wordpress.com/

Digital Arts Mag - Guide to Searching Photo Libraries

Digital Arts reports: MAKE USING STOCK LIBRARIES EASIER

'Trawling image libraries for the perfect image doesn’t have to be a chore: here are eight ways to find the perfect picture.'

.....'So while SplashdownDirect offers conceptual keywords for its collections of marine photos and footage, images are also tagged using scientific names – some quick research will make finding the shark image you’re after a speedy process'........

The article mentions all the 'usuals' and some specialist libraries.
Read the full article here: www.digitalartsonline.co.uk

Oxford Scientific Supports Environmental Photographer Of The Year

Environmental Photographer of the Year Abhijit Nandi’s winning picture Happy in Her Own World, which also won the Quality of Life Category

Oxford Scientific (OSF), part of The Photolibrary Group, is delighted to announce its support of the Environmental Photographer of the Year 2008 (EPOTY).

The photographs on show deal with some of the most important issues of our time and will be on display from 17th September until 11th October 2008 at The Art Pavilion, Mile End Park, East London, E3 4QX.
Free Entry - 10am – 6pm, 17th September to 11th October 2008

To see a gallery of the winning shots go to www.guardian.co.uk

Australian Newspapers Available Online 1800 - 1950's

In collaboration with the State and Territory libraries, the National Library of Australia launched the Australian Newspapers Beta service (July 08) which makes available out-of-copyright digitised Australian newspapers.

New MD at the Mirror

UK: Trinity Mirror has announced the appointment of Mark Hollinshead as Managing Director of its Nationals Division with immediate effect.

Mark’s new role combines his previous position as Managing Director, Scottish Daily Record and Sunday Mail, with that of Managing Director, UK Nationals
The role brings together for the first time all five of Trinity Mirror’s National newspapers and related portfolio of digital products under one managing director.

Kursiv Release New Keywording Software

Keywording is time consuming and expensive.
With "KIM Keywording" swiss photoagency Kursiv launches a new software for faster keywording of images with a variety of unique features. The product offers a structured approach to the keywording of large amounts of images and supports up to 10 languages.

Read on for a special introductory offer from KIM Keywording available to PhotoArchiveNews.com readers........

Canon EOS 5D Mark II Launched

Canon announces the full frame, 21.1 Megapixel EOS 5D Mark II: the first EOS with full High Definition video capability.

Available end of November 2008. For further information: www.canon.co.uk

Dennis Publishing Expands Into India

Dennis Publishing announced a joint venture with Media Transasia to launch Dennis Media Transasia India Ltd.
The venture will be privately owned and based in New Delhi. The move into India will tap into the fast-maturing media market of 1.1 billion consumers.

Exhibition: Coded

Exhibtion: Coded - A photographic exploration of political landscapes.
Five photographers - Ignacio Acosta, John Angerson, Clive Egginton, Casey Orr and Corinne Silva - present an exhibition exploring the coded landscapes that form a backdrop for abandonment, migration and war.

3rd October to 9th October 2008
Brighton Media Centre Gallery
15-17 Middle Street, Brighton, BN1 1AL

Part of the Brighton Photo Fringe www.photofringe.org

Kidnapped Australian Photojournalist Shown On Arab TV

Heraldsun.com.au reports: Al Jazeera airs video of kidnapped Australian.

'.....ARAB television has aired a video of an Aussie photojournalist in Islamic robes after he was kidnapped in Somalia last month.'

Full article here: www.heraldsun.com.au

The Travel Library Introduces Easier Downloads

© The Travel Library

The Travel Library (TTL) has introduced a new 'express basket' feature on their website. This allows registered clients to download high res images in just two simple steps.

TTL announce this new feature in the first edition of their newlsetter Travel Library News, where they also introduce their first Gallery Showcase of new imagery.

You can see this month's gallery here:www.travel-library.co.uk

Image Quest Marine's Halloween Monsters

© Image Quest Marine

Image Quest Marine have been looking ahead to Halloween next month.
With this in mind they have put together a showcase called Deep Sea Creatures featuring some spooky marine life found in the oceans, like this Deep Sea Angler Fish above.

www.imagequestmarine.com/stock

LFI - The New Website

Celebrity photo agency London Features International - LFI - have introduced a new, more 'user friendly' website.

LFI owners David Jacobs and James Claydon are currently putting in an exciting new team to take the business forward and are planning on announcing a number of major new developments in the coming weeks.

All current users of the LFI website should note that their usual logins will remain the same and should they have any questions regarding the new site please do not hesitate to contact the LFI office (+44 207 723 4204 or sales@lfi.co.uk).

Take a look here: http://www.lfi.co.uk/

The Week Arrives In Australia

Dennis Publishing will launch its successful current affairs and commentary digest The Week in Australia.
The first issue will be on sale nationwide on October 31st.

Job: Scanner/Digital Imaging Technician - Mary Evans

Mary Evans Picture Library
Scanner/Digital Imaging Technician – Maternity Cover Six Months.

The main responsibilities of the job include: High-resolution scanning of pictures from original archive material or photographic transparencies to fulfil client requests. Batch scanning of archive material as part of our continuous scanning programme. Using Adobe Photoshop to ensure all scans meet our high standards for image quality. Assisting picture researchers in locating archive material. Updating our image database as necessary.

Full details of this job and others here: P A N Industry Jobs

Trial 8 Magazine - Buy A Single Copy Now!

8 magazine Issue 23 trial copy - Trial Offer valid until 1 October only!

Buy the current issue of 8 magazine as a Single Copy Trial Subscription and see for yourself why 8 is considered the leading photography magazine published today.

The new-look issue contains over 200 pages of photography, commentary, reviews and interviews.
Get yours here: foto8.com

ITN Source Launches 'Clips On Demand'

ITN Source unveils Clips On Demand in their website re-launch.

- Over half a million broadcast quality clips available to purchase and download online for the first time from itnsource.com.
- Simplified licensing structure.
- Prices reduced by 30% for online purchases.

DRR Responds to PhotoShelter Collection Closing

'Today we learn that PhotoShelter is exiting the stock licensing business. Citing their slow growth and an inability to efficiently service photo buyers, and further handicapped by the limitations of a business model that depended far too much on largely part-time photographers to satisfy the requirements of full-time professionals these challenges have proven the undoing of PhotoShelter’s hopes to be a market leader in the stock licensing business.'

Read the full article on the Digital Railroad blog here: DRR/Blog

Camera Press Ready For Christmas

Click here to view a selection of Food Interiors and Lifestyle images from Camera Press' Christmas range. http://www.camerapress.com/christmas

Outdoor-Archiv Sign New Sports Photographer

Action Sports Photographer Tim McKenna teams up with Outdoor-Archiv.
Tim McKenna is a distinguished expert in his field. Although the Australian-born photographer made a name for himself in the international Action Sport photography field, he is best known internationally for his stunning surf pictures.

Tim now represented in Germany by Outdoor-Archiv.
View his images here: www.outdoor-archiv.de

Call For Entries: Fashion 3

2007 bronze winner Lauren Alderman

The call for entries is now open for the 'Fashion 3' Awards by The London Photographic Association.

Call for entries closes on 28th February 2009. Go to www.london-photographic-association.com for more information.

Exhibition: Tokyo Stories

TOKYO STORIES
An exhibition of photographs by Hiroshi Hamaya, Tadahiko Hayashi and Shigeichi Nagano.
8–15 November 2008, Artcurial, 7 rond-point des Champs-Élysées, 75008 Paris

6th Annual LUCIE AWARDS

6th Annual LUCIE AWARDS Celebrate LEGENDARY PHOTOGRAPHERS

The Lucie Awards, presented by Pilsner Urquell, celebrate their 6th year anniversary at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall, Monday, October 20, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. Honorees and top winners from the 2008 IPA competition will be recognized. The Lucie Awards, produced by the Lucie Foundation, (a non-profit, charitable foundation), salute the achievements of the world's finest photographers, discover emerging talent through the International Photography Awards and promote the appreciation of photography worldwide.

Free Legal Advice Service

From this month onwards Own-it (University of the Arts London) will offer a full legal advice service for the creative industries in collaboration with Queen Mary University Legal Advice Centre.

This new and expanded service will help creative businesses get the legal support they need for legal questions about studio leases, employment etc. To give them a try go to: www.own-it.org/advice and follow the instructions.

NB. Full legal advice service is operational between November and May.

Book: Mikhael Subotzky Celebrates Publication

26-year-old Mikhael Subotzky's first book, about society, crime and punishment in South Africa, focuses on the small Karoo town of Beaufort West. With an essay by Jobny Steinberg and commentary by Subotzky.

To celebrate its publication you can join Mikheal Subotzky, Chris Boot and David Strettell for an informal drink on Thursday 11th September between 6pm and 7.30pm at Dashwood Books, 33 Bond Street, New York, NY 10012.

www.chrisboot.com

Millennium Images Shoot 'Hadron Collider' at CERN

The Large Hadron Collider by Enrico Sacchetti:From Millennium Images

Today sees the start-up of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC will be the world's most powerful particle accelerator, and cost in excess of $6 billion. Today, for the first time, the LHC will send a proton beam around its 16.57-mile-long tunnel.

Haymarket Consider 'Eve' Closure

UK: Haymarket Media Group has entered into a consultation period with staff of women’s magazine Eve and some of its associated brand activities about the title’s potential closure.

IPC - Loaded & NME Shortlisted

UK: Two IPC Media titles – NME and Loaded – are in contention to be crowned 'the UK's favourite cover' in a major national poll.

The 16-strong shortlist for the Great Cover Debate – which is a central element of this year's Magazine Week, organised by the PPA – has been generating significant media interest.

Dennis Launch Latest 'Bookazines'

UK: Dennis Publishing has announced its partnership with the UK's foremost children's food expert and author Annabel Karmel, for its latest series of high-end 'bookazines'.

Job: Global Archive / Stock Sales Director - Magnum Photos

Renowned photo agency Magnum Photos is looking to recruit a senior executive to manage its global Archive / Stock sales business.

Full details of this job and others here: P A N Industry Jobs

cnet Demo's 'Photrade'

cnet news reports:

Photrade lets photographers control their pictures, get paid for them
Posted by Daniel Terdiman

...In addition, the system allows photographers to track usage of their photos, so that they can determine who is using them. And, if they decide they're not happy with someone specific using a photo, they can block access to that picture. But if that happens, the user gets a note allowing them to ask the photographer for permission. This, of course, is a path to asking for payment for use of the picture....

Full article here: www.cnet.com

BJP's Vision Event - 7th November

This years Vision event for aspiring photographers will be taking place on Friday 7th November 2008, at the Business Design Centre, Islington.

Initially aimed at young photographers and students, the event is now increasingly attended by professionals in the field.

Photolibrary Represents AGE Fotostock

Photolibrary, the independent global distributor and producer of still and moving imagery, has signed a distribution agreement with AGE Fotostock throughout their office network in the UK, US, Australia, Asia and the Middle East.

Photolibrary has also agreed to provide AGE FotoStock content from its house collections for distribution through AGE’s THP channel partners and AGE FotoStock direct.

Alfonso Gutierrez, General Manager of AGE FotoStock, says, "Nowadays everything is about distribution in our business..."

Exhibition: Best of British

Serving beer by candlelight in the London bar at St Pancras station during a blackout, 1962. © PA Photos

Monday sees the opening of the Best of British photography exhibition, charting over a century of life in the UK, displayed throughout recently refurbished St Pancras International station,London.

The exhibition, to mark the 140th anniversary of both Press Association and St Pancras, runs between 8 – 26 September with the photographs displayed throughout the station.

Rawzor - Lossless Compression For Camera Raw Files

Rawzor compresses camera raw images with absolutely no change in image quality or the original raw file.

In its Beta stage, windows only (looking for feedback from PhotoArchiveNews readers).

Full details here: www.rawzor.com

Barcroft Media - New Site

Barcroft Media launch their new website.
Earlier this morning, Sam Barcroft told PhotoArchiveNews.com "we have ensured our website makes sourcing pictures and video a simple and enjoyable experience."

View the site:www.barcroftmedia.com

Job: Sales Executive at Red Cover

Red Cover is looking for an enthusiastic person with a creative flair to join their Sales Team.

Full details of this job and others here: P A N Industry Jobs

Matrix Photos - The New Site

In line with their 'Re-brand and Restructure Program' announcement last month celebrity photo agency MatrixPhotos.com are now ready to present a new website.
Take a tour here www.matrixphotos.com

The agency is also recruiting photographers.... "we are currently recruiting two self motivated celebrity photographers. We offer a generous package for the right candidates."

Full details of the Matrixphotos.com jobs and others here: P A N Industry Jobs

Corbis' Creative IQ Trend - Back to Basics

© 2001-2008 Corbis Corporation

According to the latest Creative IQ Trend from Corbis, as the economy slows down, the evidence that consumers are cutting back is all around us.
This presents marketers with an opportunity to ensure their products and services tap into this ‘Back to Basics’ feeling and photographers will need to provide creatives with imagery that reflects this trend.

Exhibition: Lucien Herve - Starts 6th September

High Court Chandigarh,1953 © Estate of Lucien Hervé courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery

Photographs by Lucien Hervé
"The Soul of an architect" – Le Corbusier
6th September – 11th October 2008
At the Michael Hoppen Gallery, London

This exhibition will include rare vintage prints from Le Corbusier’s L’habitation exhibition in 1953, colour portraits of Zaha Hadid, architectural photographs of the Eiffel Tower and colour works of the artist’s apartment.

www.michaelhoppengallery.com

Aerial Photographer Produces Book

Aerial stock photographer, Jason Hawkes, has finished working on the "Britain From Above" book.
You can view a short video about the project on the BBC website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/britainfromabove/stories/behindthescenes/photos.shtml

Mary Evans Launches Castle Howard Collection

Mary Evans Picture Library, a source of historical images, launches its newest collaboration - exclusive worldwide representation of the magnificent collection of Castle Howard in Yorkshire.
"Castle Howard is not only a landmark synonymous with history, art and culture," says Paul Brown, Managing Director of Mary Evans, "but it is also one familiar to many because of its continuing association with "Brideshead Revisited". With a new feature film out this autumn we're sure that Castle Howard will be in the spotlight once more."

Where Did The Summer Go?

Blackberries © DK Images

It certainly feels like Autumn has arrived here in the UK.
Back in the office after our summer break, children back to school, the evenings drawing in - and still no sunshine.

Here at PhotoArchiveNews.com we're still holding out for an Indian Summer....

For an Autumn image selection visit: www.dkimages.com

Happy 2nd Birthday to Media Blitz

Today, 1st September, is Media Blitz's 2nd Birthday!
To thank all their customers for their support they're giving away a £25 gift voucher for every £500 you spend with them during September.

Picturehouse New York - 29 October

Stock imagery buyers are invited to meet image suppliers from around the globe in New York on 29 October 2008.
This will be the 8th annual Picturehouse New York event bringing together over a hundred image suppliers for a day. This year the event will be held in the Altman Building in New York's Chelsea District.

Entry is