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PhotoRESEARCHER Newsletter for August Week Two ## 443B |
KEY WORDS: | Distribution | Delivery | Music Industry | Stock Photography | New Wave | Photo Malls | Photo Researchers | E-Commerce | NEWSWORDS: | Where We’ve Been | Protection | Clandestine
Camera | Microsoft VS. Google | More Protection | Something
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The Stock Business is Thirty Years Behind the Music
Industry...
But We’re Catching Up
When it comes to distribution and delivery, the music industry is thirty years ahead of us. If digital images and the Internet had been invented before recording equipment and radio, we in the photography industry could have been the pioneers.
But, we have an advantage being "behind." We can look back and see the wrong and right directions the music industry has taken since the initial stages of its commercial development in the first quarter of the 20th century.
In the early days, the powers-that-were in the commercial music world, demanded that musicians be part of established bands and organizations if they wanted to achieve success. Not until 78 rpm records and audio and videotapes came along, did individual performers begin to prosper independently. When radio and TV entered the scene, these media offered musicians additional opportunity to break from the old strictures.
Together with increasing availability of quality musical instruments at reasonable prices, and a massive listening audience, these developments opened new doors for aspiring musicians. Individual music groups (rock, country-western, classic, jazz) were able to form their own private ensembles and compete against the establishment for attention. A young person with promising talent could become an "overnight success."
Some critics will argue that mass distribution has lowered the quality of the music we hear. Others will argue the opposite – that it gives more musicians more opportunity to enter the field, with a resulting increase in quality.
Deja Vue
The new waves of independent musicians are liberated from traditional forms of music presentation and can choose to experiment in the composition and performance of their music.
In these early days of digital image delivery and distribution, we are seeing the beginnings of similar parallels in the stock photography industry.
Individual photographers can now place a selection of their photos on the Internet with a "photo mall," or in a special interest stock agency, or they can build their own Web site to display their images.
Photographers are discovering that many of the traditional approaches to photography are being challenged.
Recent examples of this new trend are manifested also in non-traditional cinema productions, such as "The Blair Witch Project," which in turn has influenced advertisements on TV and other media.
Like the impressionist painters of the turn of the century (the second one back!), some photographers are ignoring classic tenets of formal photography, like focus, perspective, and composition. The impressionist results are showing up in stock agency catalogs, museum catalogs, and print ads.
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Stock 2011 Advance Notes: As veteran photographers and photo researchers, we are passing through an era that can flip us upside down if we don’t fly right. Photo researchers and photobuyers have long struggled with an archaic system in their task to acquire the "just-right" photo to fit an editorial placement. But there's change afoot. By the end of the decade, acquiring on-target photos will have become much easier. Let's project ourselves to October in the year 2011. Researchers and buyers are enjoying this smoother system of acquiring that "just right" photo, and at an inexpensive fee. How did this begin? It was born of the revolution in e-commerce marketing at the turn of the century. Music file-sharing (Napster) was at the center of the revolution. Internet entrepreneurs realized that if you injected some democracy into music buying, more people could enjoy music, at a lower cost to the consumer. Increasing numbers of photo researchers and photobuyers discovered that by using the same basic technology and applying improving Internet search methods, they could use more illustrations, because through these methods images are easier to find, quicker to administer, and cheaper to lease. A final element was the introduction of a workable system of advantage micro-payments, tracking multiple volume sales, controlling the bookkeeping through subscription services, providing royalty tracking and payments procedures, and ensuring that the photos purchased didn't leak out onto the wider Web landscape. At the end of this first decade of the 2000’s, the world of stock photography distribution operates in a whole new landscape. No longer do we have a sundry of massive stock agencies, based on previous century technology, controlling the commerce. Photo researchers and buyers armed with Web search know-how, are aiming their high-speed computers and bandwidth directly at individual photographers, who are able to supply the highly specific images the buyers are looking for. Everyone from students to major book publishers, from TV documentary production companies to major advertising agencies, are seeking out and buying photos using the Internet. What is making the difference? There are several factors. BLOWING IN THE WIND What is causing the demise of the large stock photo agency as we knew it? All of the above, of course, but the main factor is that, being a centralized organization, the massive stock agency is too monolithic to be able to act swiftly when a researcher needs a picture. In the past, the massive stock agency was convenient because all their images were housed in a central supermarket-style location. But the emergence of the Web is destroying this advantage. Researchers and buyers can now go directly to the supplier—the photographer — rather than through a bureaucratic middleman system.
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PROTECTION Proposed NYC Film Permit Rules
Rile Indies With stenciled Bolex camera protest signs and
no permit to assemble, some 400 people demonstrated at a downtown
Manhattan rally on Friday to protest New York's moves to alter
rules that govern filming and photography on the city's streets. CLANDESTINE CAMERA Plano man indicted for
nude recording of stepdaughter MICROSOFT VS. GOOGLE Street Photography Rigs
Compared in something of a tongue-in-cheek post, compares
the cars and cameras Google is using to capture its StreetView
imagery with those being used by Microsoft for what has been
known as StreetSide. StreetSide is a Live Local product that
predated Google's MORE PROTECTION Sex offender graces catalog?
- Hise's Albuquerque Office of Senior Affairs decided to tear
into action - literally - by removing the covers on all 15,000
copies of the publication. http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/jul/21
Mel Glynn www.shermelimages.com info@shermelimages.com
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Wallowitch. His outstanding editorial photography
inspired yours truly in the early 70’s to enter the
field and begin selling images to book publishers. Wallowitch
passed away some years ago, and his heirs have now decided
to offer Wallowitch’s entire collection for sale, to
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