Several readers alerted me to The Digital Economy Bill (here) in the UK which contains Orphan Works language that “will allow the commercial use of any photograph whose author cannot be identified through a suitably diligent search.”
Photographer Simon Crofts has a post about it (here), where he says:
“The Government’s idea is to take control of [...]
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Ansel Adams Or Uncle Earl?A Bay Area woman may have solid proof to support the assertions of the Ansel Adams estate that negatives a Fresno man bought at a yard sale were not taken by the famed nature photographer as he claims. She thinks they may have been taken by her Uncle Earl.
via KTVU San Francisco, via The Online Photographer.
Grassland consists of 22 full-page c-prints and one digital print tipped in on the inside coverSeveral years ago, a self-published photography book could cost an arm and a leg to produce, carrying the potential to be so costly as to deter artists from attempting the leap of photographic publication. But low and behold came the arrival of the print-on-demand book - an exciting new avenue for emerging or mid-career photographers hoping to show their work to a wider audience. In recent years, the photography book business has seen self-published titles overwhelm the market - I see many of these titles on a weekly basis, few of which have caught my eye with regards to content and image quality the way Phil Underdown's limited edition Grassland has. It is exciting to see a print-on-demand publication emerge with the characteristics and individuality only larger publishers are typically able to achieve.
Ansel Adams discovery sparks row as family say negatives are fakes - TelegraphBill Turnage, managing director of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust, said: "It's an unfortunate fraud. It's very distressing."
via Telegraph.
Ansel Adams photos found at garage saleTwo small boxes he bought 10 years ago for $45 -- negotiated down from $70 -- are now estimated to be worth at least $200 million, according to a Beverly Hills art appraiser.
Those boxes contained 65 glass negatives created by famed nature photographer Ansel Adams in the early period of his career. Experts believed the negatives were destroyed in a 1937 darkroom fire that destroyed 5,000 plates.
via CNN.com.
Monocle Mediterraneo“The creation of the Monocle newspaper is a response to our growing audience and the desire to launch a highly targeted product to reach them when they have time to read and listen at their leisure,” says Brûlé.
“There’s a huge amount of talk about the death of print, thanks to various types of ‘pad’ devices, but if you think of summer – with sand, swimming, sun cream and socialising - a carefully crafted newspaper is more useful and reader-friendly than a backlit screen that hates the sun and salt,” says Brûlé.
via García Media.
Soup of the day
there are a lot of things wrong in the design of HelveticaPeople go on about Arial and how awful it is, and Comic Sans, what an atrocity that is, why not the same about Helvetica?
via Creative Review.
Stash ArtistsI can honestly say I’ve never had as much fun looking at photographer’s portfolios as I did when I looked at these. In keeping with their entire brand, the Stash “books” are anything but.
via Hmab: The Lounge.
Hearst Magazines Readies App EditionsHearst Magazines sold more than 12,000 downloads of its Popular Mechanics iPad edition since its release on July 8 and is gearing up to release many more apps this year, including app editions of Esquire; Marie Claire; O, The Oprah Magazine; Food Network Magazine; Cosmopolitan and Harper's Bazaar.
Canon Wonder Camera ConceptCanon argues you won't need to shoot stills when its video is capable of keeping everything in focus all the time -- you'll just pick out your favorite scene from the movie reel.
via Engadget.
thx, paulo
