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  Image Arts Etc., Art.com Form Partnership
Under the arrangement, Image Arts Etc. customers will gain access to fine art reproductions, while Art.com will have new bricks-and-mortar retail outlet opportunities. Although Image Arts Etc. will begin by offering reproduction prints by artists such as Monet, van Gogh, Seurat and others, future plans also call for the retail stores to offer black-and-white images from the Hulton Getty Collection, considered one of the definitive photo archives of the 20th Century.

Both Hulton Getty and Art.com are owned by Getty Images.

Alchemedia, Digimarc Form Strategic Partnership to Manage Content Online
Alchemedia, a leading provider of content protection and content-to-commerce solutions for visual content on the web, has announced a strategic partnership with Digimarc, a leader in digital watermarking technology.

The partnership was designed to allow content owners and image sellers to maintain full control over their proprietary — and Web-posted — material. Alchemedia’s Clever Content prevents unauthorized copying and usage of visual content, and Digimarc’s ImageBridge watermarks provide a persistent identity for each image, communicating copyright information and enabling web-linking from the image.

Yahoo! Music to Feature RollingStone.com’s Archive
In a new licensing deal with RollingStone.com, the newly redesigned Yahoo! Music website will feature RollingStone.com’s photo archives. The archive houses some of the world’s most arresting and infamous images of memorable moments and icons in rock/pop history.

With over 75,000 images—including legendary cover images taken by such renowned photographers as Annie Leibovitz—the collection will feature more than 30 years’ worth of magazine covers as well as images taken from feature stories and live concert shots.

Phototrust.com Signs Up Master Artists, Creates Travelphotocontests.com with Travelocity
PhotoTrust.com, an online community site for photographers that emphasizes continuing education, exhibitions, contests and other services geared towards the professional photographer, has signed up new "master artists" as part of its portal relaunch.

Nature photographers Joe and Mary Ann McDonald, who have contributed to Audubon, Birder’s World, Smithsonian, Natural History and the magazines of the World Wildlife Fund and the National Wildlife Federation, will offer tips and feature stories to the new portal, as will Harvey Lloyd and Seattle-based photographer Davis Freeman.

Renowned underwater photographer Stephen Frink, an instructor with the Nikon School of Underwater Photography and contributor to publications such as Scuba Diving, Skin Diver, Natural History and Islands, has also signed on as a master artist.

In a separate move, PhotoTrust.com has partnered with Travelocity.com to create TravelPhotoContests.com. The partnership and new contest project coincides with Travelocity.com’s launch of a new print magazine, Travelocity, and the contests will serve as cross-promotion for each of the entities, with participants competing for travel prizes.

Yahoo! Photos Introduces Film Development
Yahoo! Photos has added mail-in film development to its online photo services.

Through a relationship with PhotoWorks, a full-service Internet photo company, people will be able to mail in film, receive prints and negatives back via mail and view their images online through Yahoo! Photos. Users can then move their online photos directly into their personal Yahoo! Photo albums, where they can share the pictures with family and friends and order reprints.

Intrawest to Redesign Ski Resorts with Commissioned Photos
Intrawest, a leading operator and developer of village-centered ski resorts in North America, has announced a new interior design approach that will focus on North American photography and art.

Called "Intraspectives," the project will source leading-edge photographic artists through museums and galleries in Vancouver, Calgary, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Toronto, Atlanta and New York. Art consultant Susan Almrud will help select the photographers, who will then be asked to capture the spirit of each participating.

Blue Earth Alliance Sponsors Three Western Photographers
Blue Earth Alliance, a Seattle-based nonprofit aimed at the development and sponsorship of photographic essays that deal with endangered species, cultures and resources, has announced the sponsorship of three photographers in the Western states.

Phil Borges’ current project, "Spirit of Place," is about the relationships of a people to their environment, specifically the few remaining animist cultures that spiritually communicate with the natural world. His exhibit from this project, which began its tour this past summer at the Benham Gallery in his hometown of Seattle, contains images from Siberia, Mongolia, the Philippines, Ecuador and the Amazon Basin.

Boulder, Colo.-based photographer Joanna Burton’s "The Girls Project" documents today’s adolescent girls and the peer and cultural influences they encounter. Her photo-documentary explores the lives of eight girls aged 11 through 13.

Bryan Watt, a photographer based in Santa Barbara, is documenting two hill tribes living in the Southeast Asian jungles of Laos and Thailand in Disappearing Cultures. Watt’s documentary will examine the lives of the Akha and the Mlabri tribes, who are losing their cultures as a result of the destruction of jungle habitat and the influences of encroaching populations.

New "Hasselblad Collection" Offers Images Captured on Its Cameras
Hasselblad USA has announced the creation of the "Hasselblad Collection," a limited-edition offering to the general public of international images recorded on Hasselblad equipment.

Selected images can be viewed at Zuga.net, the website home of Zuga.net and ZugaGallery. In addition, selected images from the Hasselblad Collection will be published by Marathon Press in a hardbound, large-format book scheduled for release in October.

Industry Execs Launch Dot-com to Provide Digital Photo Services
Based in Stoneham, Mass., the new Internet company will serve as a one-stop online shop for the capturing, display and creative opportunities that are unique to digital photography. Printlife’s first product offering is the Printlife PhotoBook, a hardcover, bound book that can be personalized for each customer.

Ansel Adams Center Reopens in San Francisco
After more than a year of renovation-related construction, the Friends of Photography and its museum, the Ansel Adams Center, have moved to new quarters at 655 Mission Street, between Montgomery and Third Street in San Francisco. The organization, for decades a leader in furthering the understanding of photography as an art and as a reflection of human experience, again takes its place alongside other key cultural institutions in the city’s burgeoning South of Market arts and entertainment district. Headquartered in the area since 1989, the Friends was the first nonprofit arts organization in the district.

Five light, airy, attractive galleries plus an expanded bookstore occupy 6,100 square feet on the ground floor of the center’s new space, which is just around the corner from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. See the PhotoMedia Calendar for current exhibit listings.

Getty Images Supports Photographic Education Through Grants at Santa Fe Workshops
A competitive educational grant program, funded by Getty Images, is being offered through Santa Fe Workshops. The Getty Images Educational Grants will offer twelve $1,000 education grants in 2001 and an identical twelve grants in 2002.

The program was designed to offer deserving professional photographers the opportunity to attend a photography or digital workshop at the Santa Fe Workshops. Details of the grant program can be found in Santa Fe’s 2001 winter/spring catalog or online at Santafeworkshops.com.