↑ This in from our what’s-on-TV reporter Mark Leech, MD at sports photo agency Offside… showing a question during BBC Four TV programme Only Connect Quiz show in which teams draw together the connections between seemingly random things.
… Mark commented: “Oi, Coren, what about Offside ?”
Cracking! – more like this please to: will@photoarchivenews.com
Corbis have launched Corbis CRAVE – a digital boutique offering a portfolio of hand-curated imagery available both as an iPad application and a website. They say: ‘CRAVE images are inspirational, trend relevant and feature the best of the best when it comes to premium commercial photography. The expert-curated galleries and artist portfolios tell the story behind the images, as well as the artist and his or her work. CRAVE contains a collection of images showcasing contemporary lifestyle, documentary, historical, celebrity, beauty and fine art.’
The image platform has been developed exclusively for iPad® and as an accompanying web experience.
“Corbis CRAVE provides creative directors and art buyers a search and ideation experience tailored to their unique and specific needs whether they’re accessing the collection on their iPad or through the website,” said Edie Tobias, senior vice president of commercial products at Corbis.
Web here
App here
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Release Date: May 15, 2013
$65.00 hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-292-74408-0
10 x 12 inches, 288 pages, 166 color and b&w photos
by Michael Kamber – publisher University of Texas Press
Michael Kamber, a writer and photojournalist for over 25 years, who covered the Iraq War for the New York Times between 2003 and 2012, interviewed thirty-nine colleagues for the book, many of them from leading news organizations including Agence France-Presse, the Associated Press, the Guardian, the Los Angeles Times, Magnum, Newsweek, the New York Times, Paris Match, Reuters, Time, the Times of London, VII Photo Agency, and the Washington Post.
The photojournalists who documented the war in Iraq faced a new kind of urban warfare. To the roadside bombs, snipers, and Katyusha rockets, Iraq added assassins, kidnappers and deadly street mobs; each photographer soon became as much target as observer. Tellingly, more photojournalists were killed in Iraq than in any other modern conflict; hundreds were abducted and wounded, or narrowly escaped death. Despite the great personal risks, some stayed and worked amidst increasingly brutal conditions as the war escalated from “shock and awe” invasion, to occupation, to insurgency, to civil war. With visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness accounts by an incredibly diverse group of the world’s top news photographers, Photojournalists on War (University of Texas Press, May 2013) presents a groundbreaking new visual and oral history of America’s nine-year conflict in the Middle East.
The hard-hitting accounts of these practitioners would be rare in the annals of any war, yet here they reveal the inside and untold stories behind the headlines in Iraq. Each interview is logged with the year and location it took place, and is accompanied by a selection of the photographer’s work made on and off the battlefield.
The Photographers in Photojournalists on War are:
Lynsey Addario – Christoph Bangert – Patrick Baz – Nina Berman – Ben Brody – Andrea Bruce – Guy Calaf – Patrik Chauvel – Alan Chin – Carolyn Cole – Jerome Delay – Marco Di Lauro – Ashley Gilbertson – Stanley Greene – Todd Heisler – Tyler Hicks – Eros Hoagland – Chris Hondros – Ed Kashi – Karim Ben Khelifa – Wathiq Khuzaie – Gary Knight – Yuri Kozyrev – Rita Leistner – Benjamin Lowy – Zoriah Miller – Khalid Mohammed – John Moore – Peter Nicholls – Farah Nosh – Gilles Peress – Scott Peterson – Lucian Read – Eugene Richards – Ahmad Al-Rubaye – João Silva – Stephanie Sinclair – Bruno Stevens – Peter van Agtmael
↑ Click to watch the BBC Magazine video: …’The book’s editor Michael Kamber, a photojournalist who covered the war for the New York Times, has been speaking to Michael Maher.’
UK based photo library Topfoto have kicked off an in-depth image edit celebrating their representation of the Roger-Viollet collection. They say: In honour and celebration of the 75th anniversary of Paris-based Roger-Viollet … we announce French Month! First in this “entente cordiale” series is to look at Marseille-Provence which is this years’ European Capital of Culture, with a colourful history all of it’s own… There will be a host of events taking place throughout the year and the summer will see revellers and culture lovers basking in events designed for the sunny days and balmy evenings.
Click here the Marseilles image selection
Click here for Roger-Viollet at TopFoto
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↑ Click to view the latest shoot edit from photographer Jim Erickson at Erickson Stock
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A selection of images from the Magnum Photos archives are now available to license through photo agency plainpicture in Hamburg.
The photo editors at planinpictures have done a great job editing the Magnum collection selecting clean commercial stock images to fit their own creative photo buyer client needs… They say: …[We] viewed Magnum from a new perspective: breaking away from the context of documentary photography, the focus of the plainpicture selection lies in strong symbolism and emotion. An atmosphere which the brilliant narrative of many Magnum photographers share with the aesthetic of the plainpicture Rauschen collection.
Take a look and license images here
Job Position: Archivist
Mirrorpix is the home of one of Britain’s largest photographic archive resources, charting the history of the 20th Century and beyond through the lenses of such pioneers of press photojournalism as The Grant Brothers, Ernest Brookes and George Greenwell to name but a few. The collections are added to on a daily basis with contemporary material and we’re now looking to recruit a new member of staff to join our busy Archive Team in North Watford.
As a commercial library working in a competitive environment we are looking for a team player who understands the demands on a modern picture agency.
Main Responsibilities:
• Liaise directly with our commercial team on internal and external client requests and help coordinate research activities between our group archives
• Ability to understand a research brief and deliver accurate results on time
• Digital image processing, including capture, colour correction and repair as required of heritage images
• Accurate and efficient captioning and keywording of historic and contemporary images
• Quality control of online content
• Maintaining the upkeep of a hardcopy library of over 60 million print and negative assets
• Liaise with clients and colleagues on visits to the archives
Required Skills:
• Ability to work as a team member is essential
• Work quickly and accurately in a pressured, deadline led environment.
• Excellent telephone manner and interpersonal skills
• Good spelling and grammar skills required.
Required Knowledge:
• An interest in photography and a sound demonstrable knowledge of 20th century and contemporary history and the personalities involved is essential
• Understanding of both hard copy print and negative scanning processes
• A minimum of 1 year’s digital imaging/Photoshop experience.
• Computer literate on both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows
• Experience of digital image delivery processes and how picture libraries use websites to deliver content to their clients is essential.
To apply, please send your CV and covering letter to fergus.mckenna@mirror.co.uk
Fergus McKenna
Head of Syndication & Licensing
Mirror Group
22nd Floor
One Canada Square
Canary Wharf
London E14 5AP
Closing date: 24tht May 2013
