Fresh Look
MacTribe gets in the designer's corner and takes a look at eight leading high end producers of contemporary Photography and what makes their offerings special, including the U.K.'s Image Source, artistic upstarts Art Resource, and boutique agency Danita Delimont...
Danita Delimont Stock Photography
Images primarily based in Worldwide Travel, Nature & Culture.
Featuring over 250 globally-based photographers with access to unique destinations, cultures and wildlife. Carefully edited with your travel and educational publishing projects in mind. Danita Delimont is an emerging image company with a number of unconventional images from its world collection. They are definitely a collection to watch.
www.danitadelimont.com
Photo Credit: © Jon Arnold Images
Art Resource
Need a shot of Napoleon for that new ad campaign? Well you've come to the right place. The world’s most comprehensive source of fine art images available for licensing, offering images from over 6,000 museums, representing officially the Metropolitan Museum, MoMA, the Louvre etc. With over 350,000 images on-line and millions more accessible, they put the power of the masterpiece at your fingertips. Art Resource prides itself on being designer friendly. Their researchers settle for nothing less than the ideal image when making selections for design and advertising clients.
artres.com
Photo Credit: Art Resource
Erickson Stock
While much of their promo material may center on the "There is a difference" theme, the hype in this case may be true. Erickson Stock is not like any other stock agency. Find pictures that inspire, entertain and inform in ways that are totally unique.
So if you want exceptional images that connect with human spirit, look at what they have to offer.
www.ericksonstock.com
Photo Credit: Erickson Stock
Image Source
Image Source is the world's leading independent producer of royalty free stock photography, with offices in London, New York and Cologne, Germany.
The business was set up by Christina Vaughan and it has grown today be one of the leading high end producers of contemporary Photography in the
world. Image Source focuses on high production value, contemporary creative images and the collection spans over 130,000 images. The company employs just under 100 people full time as well as many more artists and photographers on a freelance basis.
Image Source is responsible for the conceptualization, creation and production of every one of its own images - each of which are protected
by the highest level of technical and legal integrity. The collection focuses on 100% Model Released Imagery of People in Lifestyle, Beauty,
Business, Healthcare, Sport and Leisure - created by some of the world's leading photographers and art directors.
All images are available to license at:
www.imagesource.com
Photo Credit: Image Source
Dreamstime
Dreamstime has become a major worldwide source of fresh commercial images, enabling designers, art buyers and others to buy credits that they can exchange for images. At the same time the pool of photographers and illustrators has grown as well as this group of amateur, semi-amateur and professional artists want into this new venue to showcase their portfolios and monetize them at the same time. The image collection has grown to well over 3.5 million images from its beginning in 2004. Currently the user base is approaching 1 million users with close to 45,000 photographer/illustrator contributors.
www.dreamstime.com
Photo Credit: Dreamstime
Fotolia
Fotolia is the first worldwide social marketplace for royalty free stock images, allowing individuals and professionals to legally buy and share stock images and illustrations. Fotolia offers the largest image bank of free and affordable royalty free photos and illustrations perfect for any medium, web or print.
www.fotolia.com
Photo Credit: T.Tulic - Fotolia.com
Jack Hollingsworth.com
JackHollingsworth.com is a content creation company for the stock industry. They shoot world photography for a global marketplace. Their specialty is lifestyle, travel and portraiture. Their work is represented by all the major stock agencies and channels. Including Getty, Corbis, Jupiter, Veer, and Masterfile.
www.jackhollingswroth.com
Photo Credit: Jack Hollingsworth
Huntstock
Huntstock, Inc is a leading lifestyle image production company in Boston, managed by long time industry professionals, Mark and Pat Hunt. The subjects and concepts are broad, and the people are real. Their special niche imagery focuses on Positive Lifestyle of People with Disabilities, and Industry & Science. They are represented by Getty Images and a number of other distributors.
www.huntstock.com
Photo Credit: Huntstock
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