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Remembering Betty Freeman, photographer & patron of the arts
Betty Freeman, who died at her home in Los Angeles on January 4, 2009 at the age of 87, was a leading patron of new music in the late 20th and early 21st century. She was the force behind such modern classics as John Adam’s opera Nixon in China, Steve Reich’s electronic string quartet Different Trains and Harrison Birtwistle’s Antiphonies, and the dedicatee of works by Cage, Feldman, Berio and dozens more. She found Harry Partch living on the streets of Los Angeles and gave him shelter in her garage. In all, more than 80 composers were beneficiaries of her support, in over 400 works. Betty was also a close friend of the artists David Hockney and R B Kitaj and a gifted photographer in her own right. Her portraits of modern composers, taken with the privilege of close and prolonged collaboration, are exclusively represented by Lebrecht Music and Arts Photo Library.
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- Remembering Betty Freeman, photographer & patron of the arts
- Jeff Downey appointed Director of Sales and Business Development for PicScout
- Mazer Corporation closes its doors, seeking buyer for creative services division
- Former AP photo editor Sandy Colton dies at 83
- Corbis hires Rajiv Jain as Chief Technology Officer
- PicApp now representing paparazzi imagery from Pacific Coast News
Jeff Downey appointed Director of Sales and Business Development for PicScout
PicScout, a technology company with offices in San Francisco and Herzelia Israel best known for helping stock licensing companies monitor online distribution of their content and PicApp a platform offering free images to bloggers. Has announced that it has appointed Jeff Downey to the post of Director of Sales and Business Development. Downey joins the PicScout team with more than 20 years experience in the photo industry including experience at Getty Images where he spent the last nine years streamlining operations and creating effective sales practices and tools.
Mazer Corporation closes its doors, seeking buyer for creative services division
The Mazer Corporation, an educational publishing company based in Dayton Ohio, had recently launched a stock photography licensing business called Mazerstock. However the Dayton Daily News is reporting that company has closed its corporate and creative services divisions Tuesday, Dec. 30, and fired its staff, according to an internal to an e-mail by David Mazer, the company’s chief executive officer.
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Former AP photo editor Sandy Colton dies at 83
The Associated Press is reporting that William J. “Sandy” Colton, an AP photographer and photo editor for more than 2 decades, died Thursday of heart failure at his home in in Upstate New York. Colton, who had battled cancer in recent years, was responsible for many changes at the news agency including the AP’s conversion from black and white to color photography.
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Corbis hires Rajiv Jain as Chief Technology Officer
Corbis, the world’s 2nd largest stock licensing company owned by Bill Gates, has announced that it has appointed Rajiv Jain to the post of Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Rajiv brings more than 20 years of technology and business experience to the role coming most recently from American Greetings Interactive (AGI) where he was Senior Vice President, Chief Technology Officer and General Manager. In his most recent post Rajiv was charged with the task of integrating two recent acquisitions in the photo-space, namely WebShots and PhotoWorks. Prior to AGI, Rajiv was General Manager for e-commerce at Cingular/AT&T Wireless and has held executive and senior management positions at Portal (now Oracle), IBM, Autodesk and has 10 patents under his name. Rajiv will oversee all technology activities for Corbis and be a member of the Executive Team based in the company’s Seattle headquarters.
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PicApp now representing paparazzi imagery from Pacific Coast News
Image details: Mya spotted on the beach in Barbados served by picapp.com
Picapp, a service of the Israel based technology company PicScout offering bloggers an ad-supported solution to use celebrity, sports, and news, images free of charge, has announced that it has added paparazzi content from Pacific Coast News(PCN). PCN is one of the more prominent sources for entertainment news and pictures. “We at Pacific Coast News are witnessing a substantial change in the photo industry, with a growing demand for the content by bloggers” Said Paul Harris PCN CEO “I believe that PicApp’s innovative and most scalable application will be able to meet the blogger requirements and therefore provide us with a new distribution channel.”
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Mr. Stock Smarty Pants discusses stock photography in the winter season
As the song says: Baaay-beeee, it’s c-o-l-d outside.
However, I’m sure you’ll be pleased to know that’s it’s a cozy 75 degrees inside Mr. Stock Smarty Pants’ Aspen retreat, with a roaring fire blazing just a few feet away while I recline in my La-Z-Boy and sort through the latest pleas for help from readers of About The Image. I’m tempted to knock back my third toddy of the evening but realize that I need to keep at least a somewhat clear head in order to provide the thoroughly professional level of expertise that’s required for this sort of work. Plus, I really detest getting on the ski lift in the morning and then flying down a double-diamond run with a throbbing head, so let’s just get right to it, shall we?
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JupiterImages accused of shaving commissions in Europe
[Excerpted from article by Stefan Hartmann, Visuell] The good old days of being able to charge clients administrative fees for image research and delivery on top of the reproduction charges are a thing of the past within the stock photo industry.But Jupiterimage has recently found a way to re-introduce this fee with all rights managed sales, albeit secretly.With this new variation it is not the clients but the contributing photographers and agencies that pay the fee.
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John Birdsall to be represented exclusively by PA Photos
The John Birdsall Social Issues Photo Library has signed an exclusive representation agreement with PA Photos, who will now manage the library and serve John Birdsall customers effective January 1st 2009. The John Birdsall collection was launched in 1985, aiming to challenge stereotypical perceptions and promote awareness of subjects such as disability, race and gender. “We are very excited about working with PA Photos, who are also based in Nottingham. They show the same professionalism, customer service and sensitivity in releasing our material. This arrangement frees us up to concentrate on commissions and new photographic projects in the next year, so our collection will continue to be updated and remain fresh,” John Birdsall stated.
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Masterfile launches new image search technology dubbed “Endless Media”
Masterfile, a stock photography company based in Toronto with offices in France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom, has announced that it has launched a new online image search user interface called Endless Media. The company is touting that it spent more than a year re-thinking how to search for images and waiting for international patents on the unique methodology and its underlying logic. John McDonald, Masterfile’s Vice-President of Product Development and the technology’s creator, says “Think of it as visual logic for designers with the extreme speed of a desktop application. It’s a ‘type less and see more’ paradigm where users follow their own visual instincts to direct the search. There is nothing out there with its speed and simplicity… and this is just the beginning.”
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Glow Images launches Décor collection featuring contemporary interiors
Glow Images, a stock photography production company based in Miami, has announced that it has produced a new rights-managed (RM) collection called Décor with more than 4000 images of contemporary interiors. The collection focuses on the clean, uncluttered spaces of modern living with property releases for all images making them suitable for commercial applications “By producing a diverse collection of Glow brands featuring a wide variety of subject matter and both RF and RM license models, we are providing our distribution partners with the range and variety of images their clients are asking for,” states Gustavo Baez of Glow Images.
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Demotix launches user-generated newswire to empower citizen journalists
London based Demotix, who is billing itself as an uncensored, unedited user-generated newswire, has officicially launched its new site at Demotix.com. The platform is intended to empower anybody to upload images or video to be made available to for licensing to media publisher. Content is represented on a non-exclusive basis and images offered at prices varying from $150-$3,000, with video fetching prices of $500-$1,000/minute. All revenue is split 50/50 with the contributor.
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Vario Images now representing content from First Light
Vario Images, a stock photography agency based in Bonn Germany has announced that it has signed a deal with First Light of Toronto Canada to represent its collection in Germany. “The rights-managed (RM) collection of First Light is an extraordinary good addition to our own visual content. Furthermore, First Light meets our high demands on quality, marketability and originality”, states Susanne Baumgarten president at vario images.
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TAO Images launches RM Collection featuring lifestyle imagery of China
TAO Images Limited, a stock photography production company from Beijing, has announce the launch of a new rights-managed (RM) image collection entitled ‘Silk’ featuring more than 4,000 images of Chinese culture and travel. Tao Images was founded by by industry veterans Risong Na and Jenny Hu in 2008 “With combined experience in media/publishing industry for over twenty years, we have appreciation in clients’ expectations,” says Jenny Hu.
