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Image Arts Etc., Art.com Form Partnership 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.coms Archive In a new licensing deal with RollingStone.com, the newly redesigned Yahoo! Music website will feature RollingStone.coms photo archives. The archive houses some of the worlds 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, Birders 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.coms 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 Burtons "The Girls Project" documents todays 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 Executives from such leading names in the world of photography as Fuji, Konica, Polaroid and Kodak have joined to launch Printlife.com, an online service that will allow consumers to display and share digital images. 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. Printlifes 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 citys burgeoning South of Market
arts and entertainment district. Headquartered in the area since 1989, the Friends was the
first Five light, airy, attractive galleries plus an expanded bookstore occupy 6,100 square feet on the ground floor of the centers 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 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 Fes 2001 winter/spring catalog or online at Santafeworkshops.com. |