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Getty Images acquired the Michael Ochs Archives in February 2007. [7] The Michael Ochs Archives were described by The New York Times as "the premier source of musician photography in the world". [8] In 2008, the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman (H&F) acquired Getty Images for $2.4 billion. [1] In 2012, H&F put Getty up for sale. [9]
Stock footage companies began to emerge in the mid-1980s, offering clips mastered on Betacam SP, VHS, and film formats.Many of the smaller libraries that specialized in niche topics such as extreme sports, technological or cultural collections were bought out by larger concerns such as Corbis or Getty Images over the next couple of decades.
The company was founded by Bruce Livingstone in May 2000, as iStockphoto, a free stock imagery website supported by Livingstone's web development firm, Evolvs Media. iStock pioneered the crowd-sourced stock industry and became the original source for user-generated stock photos, vectors and illustrations, and video clips. It began charging ...
Shutterstock, Inc. is an American provider of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools; [4] it is headquartered in New York. [5] Founded in 2002 by programmer and photographer Jon Oringer, [6] Shutterstock maintains a library of around 200 million royalty-free stock photos, [7] vector graphics, and illustrations, [8] with around 10 million video clips and music tracks ...
[1] [2] Until 2009, it operated parallel to its sister site, Stockxpert.com, until the site's parent company, Jupiterimages, was purchased by Getty Images, and the site is now tied in with the iStock library of paid images. Since its acquisition by Getty Images in 2014, the site was renamed FreeImages in 2014 and the web address now redirects ...
A public domain stock photo titled "frog on palm frond". Stock photography is the supply of photographs that are often licensed for specific uses. [1] The stock photo industry, which began to gain hold in the 1920s, [1] has established models including traditional macrostock photography, [2] midstock photography, [3] and microstock photography. [4]
Examples include Christie Brinkley's work with her partner and later husband Billy Joel, Lysette Anthony's work with Bryan Adams during his Reckless era, Tawny Kitaen's work with Whitesnake in the late 1980s, Linda Evangelista's couple of videos with George Michael in the early 1990s, Stephanie Seymour's videos with Guns 'N Roses during their ...
Ford Models began representing plus size models in 1978, and added two models to their board, including top model Ann Harper, due to demand from clients. [2] By the late 1980s, Plus Models was the largest and most successful plus-size specialty agency, representing over 65 models and grossing over 2 million dollars in revenue. [19]