The F Stops Here

St. Paul, Minn. (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 20, 2010 — It’s as if you were there: Aug. 21, 1965, and the only Minnesota appearance by the Beatles, the biggest rock band of all time. Seventeen-year-old Bill Carlson was there. Trying to hone his craft, Carlson was eager to grab an unclaimed press pass and shoot the Beatles’ arrival at the airport, the press conference and the concert that followed. Carlson took more than 140 photographs that day, capturing the personality of the Beatles and their fans in spontaneous, casual, black-and-white images. Now, 45 years later, history lovers, music lovers and everyday Minnesotans can relive the day for themselves in the new exhibit “The Beatles! A One-Night Stand in the Heartland,” at the Minnesota History Center, July 17 – Sept. 12, 2010.

The exhibit features 36 images, some of which are never-before-seen pictures of the Beatles in concert. Through the images, exhibit goers will be able to make intimate connections with the Beatles, a band that changed music and popular culture forever. The photographs also tell the story of Carlson, a young photographer just starting out in his career, who attended the press conference where he talked with George Harrison about his new Rickenbacker guitar. But Carlson wasn’t the only teenager following the Beatles. At the concert, there were more than 25,000 screaming, shouting, cheering and swooning fans. Carlson’s photographs capture close-up moments of fans touched by the Beatles and their music as well as mob scenes with girls waiting to greet the band as they got off the plane and during the press conference.

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Worker Viktor Kalmykov arrives at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Combine construction site, 1930. Magnitogorsk (Magnet mountain city) is a mining and industrial city by the Ural River in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia, with one of the largest iron and steel works in the country. credit: Max Alpert ©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

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NEW YORK, Feb. 2 /PRNewswire/ — Magnum Photos, Inc., MSD Capital, L.P. and the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin today jointly announced a landmark partnership under which the Magnum Archive Collection, which contains nearly 200,000 original press prints of images taken by world-renowned Magnum photographers, will be preserved, catalogued and made accessible by the Ransom Center.  The Collection will reside at the Ransom Center pursuant to an agreement with its new owner, an affiliate of MSD Capital, which recently acquired the prints from Magnum Photos

Magnum Photos, the venerable agency founded, owned, and managed cooperatively by its member photographers, has been a standard of photographic excellence and innovation over the past 60-plus years.  The vintage prints in the Collection have been amassed since the 1930s and include images of major world events, celebrities, family life, poverty, religion and social affairs by Magnum photographers including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Elliott Erwitt, Leonard Freed, Bruce Davidson, Rene Burri, Eve Arnold, Dennis Stock and more than 80 others.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On January 25, 2010, the National Archives announced in the Federal Register that filming, photographing, and videotaping by the public will be prohibited in all exhibition areas in the National Archives Building, Washington, DC, beginning February 25, 2010.  The primary impetus for the new regulation was concern that the Charters of Freedom (the Declaration, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights) and other original documents on display in the National Archives Experience were at risk from exposure to flash photography.

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BOISE, Idaho, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ — Idaho’s Basque Museum and Cultural Center has created an insider’s look into the compelling historical journey of the of Basque men, women and children who immigrated in the early 20th Century from the Basque regions of France and Spain to the United States. “Hidden in Plain Sight: The Basques” is a new exhibit that will be displayed at Ellis Island National Monument in New York City.

“Hidden in Plain Sight” explores the language, customs, traditions and values of the Basque people as well as the allure that America held for them. The exhibit will be on display from February 6 to May 9, 2010.

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CriaImages.com, web site of Commercial Research Image Archives, offers quality historical and contemporary images at low flat rates on a royalty-free basis. Exclusive distributor of Jay Robert Nash Image Collection and the Derek Fell Image Collection, CriaImages.com is the affordable, in-depth image repository, invaluable to graphic artists, commercial users, researchers, authors, publishers and collectors

Wilmette, IL (PRWEB) December 7, 2009 — CRIA, LLC (Commercial Research image Archives) has announced the launching of its web site, http://www.criaimages.com, offering quality historical and contemporary images at flat rates (from $5.00 to $35.00) on a royalty-free basis. Founded by well-known author and historian Jay Robert Nash, the company offers diverse inventory covering all types of persons, places, things and events throughout history.

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Russian Collection Highlights – MUSIC

Lebrecht Music & Arts now offers over 10,000 fine art images from Russian Museums.

The classical music paintings are quite unique:  they include portraits of the great Russian composers  never published in the UK before:  Ippolitov-Ivanov , Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Cui, Dargomyzhsky, Medtner, Khachaturian .  Fabulous stage sets for operas such as Stravinsky’s ‘Mavra’, Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Sadko’, Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ , Gounod’s ‘Faust’.  Plus drawings and paintings of ballet dancers including work by Edgar Degas.  Please click on the picture below to see a selection of these beautiful artworks:

NEW YORK, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ — ImageSpan Inc., the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading licensing and royalty payment automation platform for all media, today announced that several owners of premier collections and libraries of images, including the Missouri History Museum and “Visions of America: Photographing Democracy” author and photographer Joseph Sohm are opening their content for business using ImageSpan’s new LicenseStream Business Edition. The announcement was made at the PDN PhotoPlus Expo, the large photography industry trade show at the Jacob K. Javits Center in New York.

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Courtesy Walter Iooss/Sports Illustrated

WASHINGTON, Sept. 24 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — See some of the greatest names in sports as you’ve never seen them before in “Athlete,” a new Newseum exhibit featuring highlights from the career of legendary Sports Illustrated photographer Walter Iooss Jr. For this exclusive exhibit, Iooss selected more than 40 photos that represent his favorite moments from nearly 50 years as a sports photographer.

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