Location: University of Cambridge, The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge Date: 24-26 June 2010 Conference summary: William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) is remembered primarily as a photographic pioneer and influential early voice on photographic aesthetics, but his activities as a Victorian intellectual and ‘gentleman of science’ ranged widely across [...]

The rise of photographic agencies or wire services as satellite businesses of news agencies and the set-up of all kinds of specialized picture suppliers is commonly defined as the time between the first and second World War, namely in the 1920s and 1930s. The demand of photographs for newspapers, magazines and most notably the emerging [...]

A partir d’aujourd’hui, l’entreprise américaine Eastman Kodak lance une nouvelle épisode dans le cadre de sa campagne de publicité ‘Kodak moment’ périodiquement réanimée depuis 1961 : « It’s not a Kodak moment unless you share » proclame Jeffrey W. Hayzlett de Eastman Kodak, dans l’article de Stuart Elliott, Modernizing the ‘Kodak Moment’ as Social Sharing, The New [...]

L’émergence des ressources numériques voit apparaître un nouveau modèle économique basé sur le phantasme d’une archive visuelle totale, sans limites et d’accès immédiat. Fondée en 1989 par William (Bill) H. Gates, l’agence d’images Corbis incarne ce modèle. Peu après sa création, celui-ci sera rattrapé par le bouleversement de l’économie de l’image, auquel Corbis et son concurrent principal, Getty Images, auront fortement contribué.

Joanne GARDE-HANSEN, Andrew HOSKINS and Anne READING (Ed.), Save As… Digital Memories, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 What is digital memory? How are digital technologies changing what we remember and how? Records of the past used to be expensive and bulky to keep, and difficult to access.

Signalement: article de Lindsay Pollock: “Billionaire Michael Dell’s investment firm, MSD Capital LP, has acquired about 185,000 vintage photographic prints from the Magnum Photos agency in what is thought to be among the largest photo transactions in history.” Lire la suite