Photographic Agencies: Overview

Overview

This site features notes on a number of photo agencies and image libraries.

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Agencies

Agencies include -

• Corbis
• Getty
• Magnum
• Rapho

Studies

A perspective is offered by Exploiting Images & Image Collections in the New Media: Goldmine or Legal Minefield? (London: Kluwer 1999) edited by Barbara Hoffman. The answer to the question is of course that it is both a goldmine - Hoffman suggests that the market is worth upwards of US$1 billion with a 15% annual growth rate - and a minefield. Other reports argue that the global market for stock photography is worth around US$2 billion pa, with Getty having a 25% share.