Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » Spring Photography Auctions Total More Than $30.8 Million, Set Artist Records
Several world auction records were set for works by contemporary artists, among them Richard Misrach ($98,500), Alex Prager ($30,000), Viviane Sassen ($6250), Mona Kuhn ($11,250) and Julie Blackmon ($8,750).
Link: Stock-Photo Model Scout Sees Something Special In Man In Business Suit Crossing Arms | America’s Finest News Source
“The second he sat down on the edge of that desk, folded his arms, and stared ahead intently, I knew this guy was a natural,” Sheeran said of the clean-cut, dark-haired 35-to-45-year-old man
Link: NEWS – Remi Thornton Photography
Getty is allowing CafePress to choose from their thousands of Royalty-Free* images and authorizing them to sell those photographs on mouse-pads, coffee mugs, and other products all around the world, free of commitment. CafePress only owes Getty money on every individual item sold, essentially putting these photographs on consignment, thus allowing CafePress to increase their “inventory” of products, with our beautiful images, without spending anything out-of-pocket. If company “X” called Getty and asked to do the same, they would be shown the door. Or would they?
Link: Pricing & Negotiating: DITLO Contract
Ditlo is an innovative stock photography company that collaborates with photographers and up-and-coming celebrities to create content that they then license to commercial and editorial clients. It may be too soon to say whether this is a viable business model, but I admire them for trying it
Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » David LaChapelle’s Former Agent Counter Sues for $75 Million
In what appears to be a tit for tat legal action in a messy business divorce, celebrity and pop art photographer David LaChapelle has been hit with a $75 million lawsuit by the former manager he sued last year for about $3.5 million.
Link: Robert Mapplethorpe Children’s Museum Celebrates Grand Opening – America’s Finest News Source
Speaking with reporters as they exited the museum Tuesday, young visitors were near unanimous in their praise for the facility and the activities it offered. “They had all sorts of cool outfits to dress up in and fun things to play with,” said 9-year-old Dylan Titus as he held up a black-and-white photograph of himself wearing a studded codpiece and a boa constrictor over his shoulders, which was taken at the museum’s Mapplethorpe Juniors Photo Booth. “I got to play with a real bullwhip, too. It was so much fun.”
Link: Do You Need a Photo Degree to Be a Successful Photographer?
My position isn’t meant to be a cynical look at photographic education, but we must acknowledge that there was massive selection bias in talking to people whose livelihoods depend on a constant study body. So let me provide a constructive counterpoint.
Link: Conscientious Extended | Meditations on Photographs: Riverfront by Curran Hatleberg
The world is there to be watched, to be seen; and a good photographer will visually organize its content into pictures that make us see what we could but usually don’t see. And crucially, one can try to take apart a good photograph and figure out how it operates, but it will still work afterwards
