Financial Times Thursday November 18, 2021
Authentic Brands Group, a brand-licensing company owned in part by the asset manager BlackRock, has acquired Iconic Images, a UK-based photo archive with images of millions of images of celebrities, from Jimi Hendrix to Audrey Hepburn. The deal, for around $27 million, is an example of the soaring value of art and images in the digital era, notes the Financial Times. Authentic, which has invested in fashion and brand licensing — including retailer Forever 21 and Sports Illustrated, already owns the brand rights to Muhammad Ali, Elvis Presley, and Marilyn Monroe. Read the full Story >>
Ian Parry Scholarship Thursday November 18, 2021
The Ian Parry Scholarship Fund is partnering with Artsy to auction off 160 one-of-a-kind works by celebrated photographers including David Bailey, Susan Meiselas, Martin Parr, Trevor Paglen, Alec Soth, Tom Stoddart, Chloe Dewe Mathews, Vanessa Winship and Linda McCartney. Bidding runs through November 24. The fund, which honors Ian Parry, a British photojournalist who was killed while covering the 1989 Romanian Revolution, awards scholarships to photographers early in their careers. Read the full Story >>
DP Review Thursday November 18, 2021
Sony’s newest flagship cinema camera, the Venice 2, features a similar design to its predecessor, but comes in a slightly more compact form factor and is available with two different sensor blocks: one with a new full-frame 8.6K 50MP 3:2 sensor and the other with the original 6K 24.8MP Venice sensor. Sony says the new 8K sensor can capture up to 16 stops of dynamic range, while the 6K model tops out at 15 stops, notes DP Review. If you want to change the image sensor inside the Venice 2, you can do so thanks to the interchangeable sensor block design. Read the full Story >>
By
David Schonauer Thursday November 18, 2021
Instagram was once the answer to Facebook's prayers. When the photo-sharing app reached reached one billion users in 2018, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed it "an amazing success." Facebook
bought Instagram in 2012, hoping it would be a growth engine delivering younger users, and it did. But even as Zuckerberg praised Instagram in 2018, Facebook was lamenting the loss of teenage users to
other social … Read the full Story >>
