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Morguefile.com announces the introduction of a new website for stock photographers and the creative industry, Fotokoi.com, images by request. Fotokoi will be released first as a mobile web application this summer and then later a desktop version in fall. There will be a formal introduction of Fotokoi during CEPIC conference in Istanbul on May 21st.

With fotokoi a buyer can post a request for a specific image that is too difficult to locate or too expensive to purchase using traditional methods. Drawing a simple sketch, then photographing that sketch with their camera phone and then posting their sketch with a brief description and a set price, they can connect with photographers and illustrators who can provide them with an image. The buyer sorts through the results by an approval process, ends the request and compensates the contributing creative participants. Images are distributed with a creative commons license. With fotokoi a buyer who is looking for a very specific image can utilize crowd sourcing to reach a broad audience of creative professionals as well as any individual looking to earn extra revenue simply with their mobile phone.

The strategy of fotokoi is to open the process of sourcing imagery to a wider audience of potential buyers. By lowering the barrier to procuring the talents of a photographer or illustrator, a process that traditionally falls under the realm of art directors. While doing so, creating a much larger market for photographers and illustrators to find creative projects.

London, May 17, 2011. Ingram Image, a leading online digital content provider for creative professionals, today announced it has entered into a binding agreement to acquire the goodwill and trading assets of Reflex Stock.

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Oxfordshire, UK, May 16, 2011. Today sees the launch of Alamy’s new German website, www.alamy.de, as the world’s largest independent stock photo site enters the next phase of its global growth strategy.

The company has spent six months translating all aspects of the customer experience at Alamy into German,

The Berlin State Opera; Credit: Cultura RM/Alamy

with regular visits to German speaking customers to get feedback as the project progressed.

The company sees this as an important milestone in understanding how to roll out its unique blend of a massive digital inventory and strong customer service to other languages and regions.

Rachel Wakefield, Head of Sales at Alamy, commented: “Alamy.de combines the amazing choice available on Alamy with our legendary customer service experience. We see a lot of opportunity to increase market share in Germany, the world’s second largest market for stock photography.”

Alamy has also invested considerable effort on operational efficiency, enabling it to develop a formula for expanding direct sales internationally whilst sticking to its core principle of paying its photographers more than it pays itself.

Alan Capel, Head of Content, added: “We are committed to growing our business in a way that is sustainable for the people who helped us get where we are today, so we are proud to be continuing our global expansion without reducing the percentage we pay our photographers.”
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NY, May 04, 2011. Corbis Images, a leading visual media provider for the creative community, today released a new Creative Research report which anticipates the emerging cultural trends that will drive image usage. The report titled “Mass Intelligence” highlights our increasing quest for knowledge in a world where science and information hold the key to a brighter future. To accompany its periodical report, Corbis also unveiled a selection of nearly 1,500 images on CorbisImages.com that illustrate how a greater emphasis on intelligence is changing the world around us. Corbis reveals a collective longing for rational solutions to the world’s problems and how it is manifested through increased education and technological advances as well as a shift in management style, working practices and policy making. In North America, the number of adults 25 and older with at least a high school diploma has increased from 80 percent to 84 percent, while high school and college enrolment rates are at an all-time high. What’s more, the hottest areas of growth are the fields of biotechnology, nanotechnology, bioinformatics, applied optics, genetic engineering, molecular biology, environmental science, and artificial intelligence.

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London, May 03, 2011. Getty Images, the leading creator and distributor of visual content and other media, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Sydney-based Photolibrary, a leading provider of creative stills imagery. The acquisition will benefit existing and potential customers, by making even more high quality and relevant imagery easily accessible to customers all over the world.

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San Francisco, CA, May 03, 2011. Stipple, a San Francisco-based technology company, today introduced Stipple Lens, a web-based service that licenses and monetizes editorial photos by connecting images to accurate search and social shopping information.
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New York, NY (PRWEB) May 02, 2011 Michelman Fine Art (MFA) is presenting its first exhibition of contemporary art with a selection of the early work of post-modern pop photographer, David LaChapelle. The photographs will be shown in New York for the first time in over 20 years. LaChapelle’s first solo show was in the early 80s. Immersed in the art world of Warhol, Basquiat, Haring, Schnabel and other 80s icons, LaChapelle developed an iconic vision of his own. Over the years, his fine art photographs evolved into elaborate theatrical fantasies on the themes of religion, sex, death, politics, money and consumption. His lush photo-scapes, which appear to be painterly, are influenced by Pop art, Surrealism, and Rennaissance and Baroque art. The current show reveals the beginnings of his exploration with these influences and themes. The early works include examples from his first show, “Angels, Saints and Martyrs”, in which black and white figures seem to transcend the physical realm; as well as other series that employ elements of collage, saturated colors and raw nude figures — recalling the ideas that shaped his later, multi-faceted photo-scapes.

Known primarily as private dealers in important works of Impressionism, Modern and Post-War Art, MFA is presenting the exhibition in a new gallery space on Madison Avenue, steps away from the Whitney Museum.

The exhibition, “David LaChapelle Early Work: 1984 –1987” will run from May 2nd – June 15th at 1020 Madison Avenue, 3rd fl, between 78th St and 79th St. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday, 10am-5pm.

Seattle, WA, April 27, 2011. Getty Images, a leading creator and distributor of visual content and other media, today announced that it has acquired PicScout, a leader in identifying image use, metadata and licensing information on the web. This acquisition will build and grow upon Getty Images’ existing range of products and services, enabling Getty Images to amplify its digital content licensing expertise and leverage PicScout’s technology in developing new image identification tools for customers. Getty Images will invest in PicScout’s technology and continue to work across the entire image industry, to improve and expand protection of Intellectual Property, thus ensuring a stronger overall content licensing industry.

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National Gallery of Art, Washington, Patrons' Permanent Fund 2001 © Lewis Baltz

From 1967 through the early 1970s, the Californian artist Lewis Baltz (born 1945) made a series of photographs that focuses on the sides of warehouse sheds, stucco walls, empty billboards, and other geometric forms found in the postwar suburban landscape. He titled these works Prototypes, by which he meant both the industrially made model structures scattered across California and the modern culture that generated them. Never before exhibited as a group, the Prototypes are among the earliest works of art to show the fascinating and disturbing transformation of the American landscape into an unending terrain of anonymous commercial architecture.

In the first exhibition dedicated to this series, some 50 Prototypes will be on view along with sculptures by Sol LeWitt and Donald Judd and prints by Richard Serra—key participants in the avant-garde dialogue that inspired Baltz. In addition, the exhibition will include the 12-panel color work Ronde de Nuit (Night Watch) from 1991 to 1992, a mural-sized tableau of surveillance sites and the people who work in them. Dramatically different in scale and appearance from the Prototypes, Ronde de Nuit reveals the artist’s continuing preoccupation with industrially manufactured environments and how they are used to control contemporary society.