from NYTimes — Some pictures are American Classics, engrained in our cultural mindset; Rosa Parks, Marilyn Monroe, JFK, Kathryn Hepburn etc, but this iconic images are all within the Corbis Company archive. Corbis had bought over the years and obtained over 11 million prints and negatives in the legendary Bettmann archive.
Anyone wanting to use one [...]

From The New York Times:
“The Internet era has been good to makers of printers so far. H.P.’s numbers show that half the printing done in homes is material from the Internet, like e-mail and Web pages, while software like Microsoft Word accounts for just under 20 percent of printouts.
But looking ahead, Mr. Joshi is [...]

It’s been almost half a century since the first computer mouse squeaked out of a Stanford lab in the 60’s. WIRED presents a gallery of some of the good, bad, and the truly awful from the past 45 years….from Wired
http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos62/

The good: Combination of fast drive mode and high resolution; large buffer; highly customizable; saves custom camera setups to media, supports cards greater than 2GB.
The bad: Noise in underexposed image areas; imperfections appear when paired with lower-quality lenses.
The bottom line: In a league by [...]

Baby Boomer commericials, radiostations, products, cereals, clothes, cars, even second homes are big business and supposedly really popular; which leads to a new (re-occuring) market:
“Jack Hollingsworth’s new royalty free niche collection, called 40260, a name that signifies the baby boomer age group of forty- to sixty-year-olds, has signed a representation agreement with the stock portal, [...]

Notes from FolioMagazine:
“Refreshing you Magazine’s Brand through Digital Editions… Revitalizing your brand every three to five years is critical to market success, according to a new survey sponsored by the American Marketing Association, and independent firms Luth Reasearch and MiresBall.”

New Super10K-HS™ Scanning Back Generates 794 MB 48-bit RGB File at Native Resolution
Better Light, the leading designer and manufacturer of large-format digital scanning camera backs, has announced the addition of a new digital scanning back to its SuperModel family that captures up to 416 megapixels of true RGB image data in every scan.
From DhPhoto

Hollywood Director talks about product placement in movies. Find it here on AdFreaks website.

The “Speak Truth to Power” photography exhibit is on display at Appalachian State University through May 11.It features 35 silver gelatin prints of dramatic portraits taken on location in five continents over a two-year period by the late photojournalist Eddie Adams, recipient of more than 500 awards in photography including a Pulitzer Prize for his [...]

You probably all know this by now but Annie Leibovitz is the photographer behind the Walt-Disney-World ad Campaign. My guess is it’s aim is to lure more adults than children being that all the the folks dressed in Disney characters are none other than Pop Culture Icons. Children don’t know half of the pop culture [...]