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.

In addition to the images, the exhibit features an artifact case with items from Carlson’s photography career, including one of his early cameras. A computer station will play video footage of the Beatles press conference and users can pull up a web page where they can enter their own memories of the Beatles visit to Minnesota and read entries by other fans.

Online Connections
In 2008, the Society started collecting online memories of fans who attended, or wanted to attend, the concert in 1965. Visitors to the exhibit can read these memories, including “Catherine’s” lament that she couldn’t go to the concert because the $5.50 ticket price cost too much. “Gail” tells of attending the concert at age 11 and forming a Beatles air-guitar band with three girlfriends (the group got so good they won a talent contest). “Mike” describes going to the concert at age 15 with his brother Bill and cousin Greg, and sitting in the third deck behind home plate on “a beautiful August evening.” The Beatles: Share Your Story can also be viewed online at www.mnhs.org/beatles.

Exhibit Public Reception
The History Center’s free summer concert series, 9 Nights of Music, features the music of the Beatles July 20 from 5 to 9 p.m. It’s an extended evening of classic rock tunes, performed by local cover-band RetroFit. The night serves as the exhibit reception and includes complimentary access to the Beatles exhibit gallery, a book signing with author and photographer Bill Carlson and a screening of the Beatles movie “A Hard Day’s Night” in the 3M Auditorium. Other activities include a photo op with a life sized Sgt. Pepper’s Album Cover, The Beatles Rock Band music video game and a Beatles inspired costume contest.

Bring a lawn chair, and pack a picnic or purchase food from the Café Minnesota Terrace Grill. Come early and take advantage of free admission to the museum galleries and stores from 5 to 8 p.m. on Tuesdays. For more information visit http://www.mnhs.org/9nights.

About Bill Carlson
This exhibit is based on the book, “The Beatles! A One-Night Stand in the Heartland,” by Bill Carlson. The book features commentary from those who were there, including Larry Kane, an Emmy-award-winning writer, who was the only broadcast journalist to travel to every stop on the Beatles’ 1964 and 1965 tours, including Minneapolis.

Bill Carlson is an accomplished photographer, cinematographer and scuba diver, combining his love for photography and diving to explore and film the underwater cave systems of Mexico and Florida. He has captured images in over 75 countries around the world and has been the director of photography on numerous commercials, films, and documentaries, most recently, “Pride of Lions,” a feature length film about the humanitarian and political crisis in Sierra Leone.

Admission
Admission to “The Beatles! A One-Night Stand in the Heartland” is included with regular museum admission of $10 for adults, $8 for seniors and college students, $5 for children ages 6 to 17 and free for children age 5 and under and Minnesota Historical Society members.

Hours
The History Center Museum is open Tuesdays, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (free admission from 5 to 8 p.m.), Wednesdays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sundays noon to 5 p.m. For museum information call 651-259-3000 or visit www.mnhs.org/historycenter.

The Minnesota Historical Society is a non-profit educational and cultural institution established in 1849 to preserve and share Minnesota history. The Society tells the stories of history through museum exhibits developed by the Society, traveling exhibits from other museums and organizations, extensive libraries and collections, historic sites, educational programs and book publishing.

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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

The exhibition, curated by RIA Novosti, Russia’s leading press service, has already shown to great acclaim at London’s Guildhall and the Imperial War Museum North.

The show includes World Press Award winners, such as Vladimir Vyatkin, whose image of soldiers in Chechnya won the Gold Medal in 2002.

Grozny, Chechnya. August 1996 Photo by Igor Mikhalev

From the turmoil of the Russian Revolution, the exhibition then charts the tremendous changes Russia has undergone within the last 100 years, from the industrialisation of the 1930s, through WWII and the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and developments since.

A federal reconnaissance unit in the Bass River gorge, Chechnya, 1999. Gold medal, World Press Photo, 2002. credit: Vladimir Vyatkin ©RIA Novosti / TopFoto

Russia’s finest photographers are represented.

Max Alpert, for example, is one of the greatest photographers of the 20^th Century. His image of Commander Alexei Yeremenko, urging on his men in 1942 shortly before his death, is justly famous.  To capture this silent, devastating, shot Alpert was right up front. You can hear the bullets.

A Russian soldier raising the Victory banner on the roof. Berlin, Germany - 5 May 1945

These are simply great photographers working at the height of their skill.

Exhibition 04/02/10–31/03/10. Gifts/Print shop. Free entry 09.30-5pm Mon-Friday; 09.30-1pm Sat. T: 01732 863 939.

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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.

Images of icons from Picasso to Marilyn Monroe, from Sinatra to Gandhi, and from Castro to a young Queen Elizabeth coexist in the Collection with depictions of international conflicts, political unrest and cultural strife.  Included are famous photos from the Spanish Civil War, the D-Day landings and the Six-Day War, as well as unforgettable scenes of historic events: the rise of democracy in India, Afghanistan and Iraq; the U.S. Civil Rights movement; the Rwandan genocide; and much more.

The Collection will be preserved and cataloged by the Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, whose photography collection holds the world’s first photograph, and has substantial holdings in fine arts and photojournalism.  The Ransom Center will encourage interest in the Collection through scholarly research, fellowships, lectures and exhibitions.  The Center will also host visits and programs with Magnum photographers.

Managing Director Mark Lubell of Magnum Photos said: “MSD Capital is an ideal partner, with a deep appreciation of and commitment to this unparalleled collection of photographic prints.  Housing the collection at the Ransom Center not only allows this archive to be studied by photographers but also helps satisfy the huge interest in it among historians, anthropologists, curators, journalists and the public at large.  Through this arrangement, we are able to acknowledge, celebrate and preserve Magnum’s historic past, and continue to be industry innovators by developing new platforms to distribute our future work.”

MSD Capital, the private investment firm of Michael S. Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Inc., purchased from Magnum Photos the physical press prints, which include many of these photographers’ most iconic images.  Magnum’s member photographers will retain the copyright and licensing rights to all of the images in the Collection.

“This is a singularly valuable collection in the history of photography,” said Thomas F. Staley, Director of the Ransom Center.  ”It brings together some of the finest photojournalists of the profession and spans more than a half century of contributions to the medium.  We are delighted to make these remarkable materials accessible to researchers and students.”

John C. Phelan, Co-Managing Partner of MSD Capital, said: “We immediately recognized the unique opportunity to own this extraordinary collection of prints by the world’s finest photojournalists.  The images contained within the Collection capture the events and spirit of the 20th century in a way that only Magnum photojournalists can.”

Glenn R. Fuhrman, Co-Managing Partner of MSD Capital, added: “The Magnum Collection is an irreplaceable trove of American and world history.  Given the technical changes that have taken place in the world of photography, including the digitization of images, a collection of prints like these will never exist again.”

Michael Dell commented, “I am so pleased to be able to entrust this significant body of work to the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas for research, study and exhibition.  The Ransom Center has a well-known record of excellence and is ideally suited to manage the archiving and study of such a substantial and important collection. Having this incredible collection in Austin is especially exciting to me.”

Selected images from the Magnum Archive Collection may be viewed at: http://bit.ly/magnumlightboxlink

© 2010, The F Stops Here. All rights reserved. (Jessica D. Korman)

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.

The announcement followed a lengthy period of internal analysis and discussion and a 60-day comment period in which the public was invited to offer input.  In spite of a more than 30-year-old regulation explicitly stating that flash photography was prohibited, prominent signs stating the policy throughout the exhibition areas, and security guards reminding the public, Archives staff estimated that the documents were subjected to approximately 50,000 flashes a year. While enforcement of this policy has always been a National Archives priority, new cameras with automatic flash have made the policy almost impossible to enforce.

The original documents displayed in the National Archives Experience are fragile and subject to fading from light.  The National Archives must balance its commitment to making these founding documents available to the public with its mandate to preserve and protect them for future generations.  Years of research and testing by top scientists have resulted in state-of-the-art encasements to protect the Charters of Freedom.  Environmental recommendations and guidelines  that include careful temperature and humidity controls, light levels below three foot candles, and light filters to remove ultraviolet radiation are closely adhered to in order to provide additional protection for our nation’s heritage.

After close examination of the policy and consultation with National Archives preservation experts, the Archives determined that barring photography in the exhibition areas would help protect our nation’s heritage for future generations.

Visitors who want an image of the Charters of Freedom or other original documents on display in the National Archives Experience may download them at no cost from www.archives.gov, visit the Resource Room adjacent to the Exhibition Hall for a free color copy, or visit the Archives Shop.

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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.

CriaImages.com is the exclusive distributor of several large image collections, including the Jay Robert Nash Collection (more than 6 million images) and the Derek Fell Collection (more than 150,000). The total image inventory is being prepared for release over time, with a large selection already available on the site.

Many of CriaImages.com’s images have never been published. Most are accompanied by detailed background information, written by staff historians and accredited researchers. The inventory is augmented by contemporary images produced by CRIA staff photographers.

“CriaImages.com offers a welcome solution for anyone accustomed to paying unreasonable rates for quality images,” said founder Jay Robert Nash. “Our fees are clearly stated and are far below industry norms. The excellent feedback we’ve received to date from graphic artists, commercial users, researchers, authors, and collectors have helped us shape CriaImages.com into the affordable, in-depth image repository they’ve always dreamed about.”

The site offers sophisticated searching and browsing tools and allows users to manage their selections. It’s also fast, thanks to the licensed IonDrive™ technology for rapid retrievals and graphical displays.

CriaImages.com’s royalty-free licensing terms are liberal and impose minimal restrictions with respect to duplication, distribution, time, and geographical use. The company offers images both individually and on a prepaid account basis (with accompanying discounts). Business-level subscriptions are also available.

CRIA is a Limited Liability Corporation based in Wilmette, Illinois.

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Built on the LicenseStream platform, LicenseStream Business Edition gives owners of premier collections and libraries of images, video and audio a quick-start, all-inclusive, Web-based service that allows content owners to showcase, license, track and monetize the full value of their content through their own branded online stores.

“With LicenseStream Business Edition, content owners can publish their content directly to their own online store or anywhere else on the Web and to global search engines, enabling anyone in the world to find their search-optimized content and pay for it with a mouse click,” said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan. “This essentially makes the content itself the storefront. It dramatically speeds the pace of transactions and drives incremental revenues. Until now, media companies, libraries and owners of premier collections had a tough time justifying the cost of putting the head as well as the long tail of their content on the Web because the revenues they realized could not cover the costs associated out-dated manual licensing transactions. Now content owners of all sizes can make their entire catalog of media – not just the hits – available online to maximize their assets’ value.”

Missouri History Museum already has made available online via LicenseStream Business Edition more than 3,000 images, including a wide range of Civil War-era images, a wide range of early daguerreotypes and other photos and images related to American Indian people and culture, and images of oil paintings and artifacts related to Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, who headed up the first overland expedition by the United States to the Pacific Coast and back.

“We often receive requests from visitors asking us about the art and artifacts we display and how they can get copies,” said Dr. Robert R. Archibald, president, the Missouri History Museum. “With LicenseStream Business Edition, we can now publish images of our collections directly to the Web so that anyone in the world can find our search-optimized images and pay for them with a mouse click. LicenseStream also has dramatically cut the time spent by our staff on searching for and processing such image requests so we can respond to requests in a day versus months, accelerating both of transactions and revenues while cutting costs.” (Please see related release: Missouri History Museum Selects ImageSpan’s LicenseStream to Maximize the Value of Its Photos, Prints)

American history teacher turned Producer-Photographer-Writer Joseph Sohm is now using LicenseStream Business Edition to license the more than 1,300 photographs included in his “Visions of America: Photographing Democracy,” ($60; November 2009; Visions of America LLC/Midpoint Trade Books Dist.) a book that offers a sweeping portrait of life in the American democracy via an epic photographic journey across the United States. For more than 25 years, Sohm traveled and photographed all 50-states. Images from his “Visions of America” collection have been published 50,000 times in his lifetime.

“LicenseStream Business Edition enables me to publish my work directly to my own branded storefront as well as to the Web and major search engines in a way that also lets potential buyers license it on the spot,” said Sohm, whose “Visions of America” recently won the Gold medal for “Best Coffee Table Book” at the 13th annual Independent Publishing awards in New York City. While requiring minimal investment, LicenseStream also allows content owners to retain a larger share of royalties for each transaction – multiple times the 20 percent royalty fee offered by most major agencies. “That key difference makes it affordable for me to shoot, metatag, process and offer my customers a much greater selection of photographs online.”

LicenseStream Business Edition pricing starts at $5,500 annually with a 25% transaction fee. The annual fee can be billed one-time, monthly or quarterly to suit a client’s needs.

ImageSpan’s Vice President, Enterprise Business Development Candice Murray will speak on “Tools for Selling Stock Direct” at 1:15 p.m. Thursday, October 22, at the PDN PhotoPlus Conference in New York.

ImageSpan also will be demonstrating LicenseStream Business Edition and its other LicenseStream services in Booths #1155 at the concurrent PhotoPlus Expo in New York, October 22-24. Come see Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Deanne Fitzmaurice talk about LicenseStream’s benefits in the ImageSpan booth at 11 a.m. Friday, October 23rd.

© 2009, The F Stops Here. All rights reserved. (Jessica D. Korman)

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.

Courtesy Walter Iooss/Sports Illustrated

From classic images of superstars such as Muhammad Ali, Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Serena Williams and Michael Phelps to photos of children playing soccer and stickball, Iooss’s work reflects a lifetime of documenting the impulse that connects all athletes: a pure love of the sport. His photos have appeared on more than 300 Sports Illustrated covers — the most by any photographer.

Courtesy Walter Iooss/Sports Illustrated

“‘Athlete’ truly captures the passion and personalities of sports worldwide, and these powerful images are amplified by Walter Iooss’s own words,” said Ken Paulson, president of the Newseum.

Courtesy Walter Iooss/Sports Illustrated

Iooss’s descriptions of his photographs provide an insider’s look at some of the legends of the sports world. He talks about his relationship with his favorite athlete, Michael Jordan, and recalls the emotional day he photographed his boyhood hero, Johnny Unitas, whose hand was so damaged by football that he couldn’t hold a cup of coffee.

Courtesy Walter Iooss/Sports Illustrated

Also on display in “Athlete” are Iooss’s personal diaries, filled with collages of his photos, quirky headlines and his handwritten notes. The exhibit includes an original Newseum-produced video in which the photographer talks about his photos and the bonds he forged with his subjects.

Iooss (pronounced “yose,” as in “dose”) has been called the “photo laureate of American sports.” He started photographing sports events at age 16, when his father gave him a camera. Two years later, his photos appeared in Sports Illustrated for the first time.

Many of the photos in “Athlete: The Sports Illustrated Photography of Walter Iooss” were published in Iooss’s 2008 book, “Athlete.” The Newseum exhibit includes Iooss’s most famous photograph, “The Catch,” which captured the last-minute touchdown catch by San Francisco 49ers’ receiver Dwight Clark that ended the Dallas Cowboys’ Super Bowl dreams in 1982.

“Athlete” will be on display at the Newseum from Oct. 9 through Dec. 31, 2009.

© 2009, The F Stops Here. All rights reserved. (Jessica D. Korman)

Lebrecht is delighted to announce that we are now representing the work of distinguished classic rock photographer Philip Grey. We have a selection of his rock group photos from the late seventies and the eighties, including Debbie Harry, Adam Ant, Bono, and The Clash plus his photos of world music at the renowned Womad festivals.

Ex-Runaway Joan Jett at London’s Music Machine, 1980.
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© 2009, The F Stops Here. All rights reserved. (Jessica D. Korman)