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NEWSWORDS: Controversial Photos | Zuma | Perpignan | Rineke Dijkstra |

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PhotoAIM, the weekly newsletter from PhotoSource

International. <http://www.photosource.com> ==>

ISSN 1530-0511

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The stock photographer’s best promotional tool…

Tear Sheets

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Tear sheets serve as an excellent promotional tool for you because they’re proof to new photobuyer contacts that you are a “published photographer.”

Where does the term “tear sheets” come from? In the ol’ days, the newspaper editor, to prove to the advertiser that his ad appeared in the correct issue, would take a straight edge and tear out the advertisement and send it to the advertiser.

Can you get “tear sheets” from a photo editor?

Some of the smaller magazines will automatically send you copies of their magazine as “part payment.” You can then tear out the sheets (pages) yourself.

Nowadays, most photographers make photocopies of such pages to send along as “stuffers” with their promotional mailings. (This is another reason to request that your credit line be included along with your photo – it’s readily-apparent proof-positive of publication for your promotional efforts.)

Ask, but be prepared that the larger magazines don’t usually send tear sheets. You can always buy a copy of the magazine and make B&W or color copies for your promotional tools. Book companies also rarely send tear sheets, and again, you can make your own copies.

Here are two techniques that sometimes work to get multiple copies of tear sheets:

1.) ASK for “press over-runs.” If a photo editor is not paying you what you feel you deserve for a particular photo, you can say, “O.K., how `bout sending me 100 over-runs and we’ll call it square.” (You might find yourself explaining to the photo editor what a press over-run is.) It’s when a press operator lets the press run a few extra seconds, getting a few dozen extra copies of that particular section of the magazine. If the photobuyer has a good working relationship with the printing plant operator, sometimes the buyer can arrange to get these tear sheets for you. Or, in some cases, especially if it’s a larger publication, you can arrange to buy the press over-runs. They usually cost one cent to ten cents per page.

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CHANGES

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SPORTS ILLUSTRATED FOR WOMEN, former address: 1271 6^th Ave, New York City, NY 10020; current address: 135 W 50^th St, New York City, NY 10020.

PET AGE (200 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60604) former contact and e-mail: Karen Long Macleod, Editor in Chief, klmacleod@HHBACKER.com; Current contact and e-mail: Cathy Foster, Editor in Chief, cfoster@HHBACKER.com .

AT BOTH ENDS, former address and fax: 60 Trowbridge St, Arlington, MA 02474, 1 781 643-6931; current address and fax: 152 Fayette St, Quincy, MA 02170, 1 617 479-2108.

RUNNER’S WORLD (135 N 6^th St, Emmaus, PA 18098) former contact and e-mail: Vicki DaSilva, PhotoEditor, vicki.dasilva@rodale.com ; current contact and e-mail: Ken Kleppert, Photo Editor, Ken.Kleppert@rodale.com .

DAVID TIETZ, Freelance Photo Research, former address: 4411 Spicewood Springs Road #905, Austin, TX 78759; current address: 8509 Daleview Drive, Austin, TX 78757.

OUTPOST MAGAZINE, former contact, address and e-mail: Kisha Freguson, Editor-in-Chief, 559 College St Ste 312, Toronto, ON, M6G 1A9, Canada, kasha@outpostmagazine ; current contact, address and e-mail: Chris Frey, Editor-in-Chief, 474 Adelaide St E Lower Level, Toronto, ON, M5A 1N6, Canada, Chris@outpostmagazine.com .

AMELIA AMESHILL ASSOCIATES, former address: 143-53 229^th St, Rosedale, NY 11413; current address: 21633 113^th Dr, Quenns Village, NY 11429-2617.

IMAGE RESEARCH (144 Main St, P.O. Box 188, Francestown, NH 03043) Contact person Francelle Carapetyan, Picture Researcher. Former e-mail: image@monad.net ; current e-mail: imageresearch@adelphia.net .

GULFSHORE PUBLISHING COMPANY (9051 Tamiami Trail N Ste 202, Naples, FL 34108) former phone and fax: 1 941 594-9980, 1 941 594-9986; current phone and fax: 1 239 594-9980, 1 239 594-9986.

AMERICAN OIL & GAS REPORTER (P.O. Box 343, Derby, KS 67037) Contact person Charlie Cookson, Photo Editor. Former e-mail: reporter@feist.com; current e-mail: ccookson@aogr.com

FIREFLY BOOKS LTD, (3680 Victoria Park Ave, Willowdale, ON M2H 3K1, Canada) former contact: Francoise Vulpe, Editor; current contact and e-mail: Brad Wilson, Manging Editor, bradw@fireflybooks.com .

BORDERS PERRIN & NORRANDER INC (222 SW Yamhill St, Portland, OR 97204) Contact person Michele Edler’s name changed to Michelle D’Rovencourt. Former e-mail: melder@bpninc.com ; current e-mail: mrovencourt@bpninc.com .

VOYAGEUR PRESS (123 N Second St, Stillwater, MN 55082) former contact and e-mail: Margaret Aldrich, Photo Research, maldrich@voyageurpress.com ; current contact and e-mail: Mary LaBarre, Photo Research, mlabarre@voyageurpress.com .

OFFSHORE PUBLICATIONS INC (500 Victory Rd Marina Bay, North Quinsy, MA 02171) former contact: Kristen Stahl, Managing Editor; current contact: Lisa Sabian, Managing Eidtor.

MABRICA, former contact, address and e-mail: Valerie Evering, Production Assistant, 225 LaFayeete St, New York, NY 10012, vevering@yahoo.com ; current contact, address and e-mail: Sarah Hutt, Production Assistant, 72 Sprint St Ste 1002, New York, NY 10012, sarah@mabrica.com .

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This week's featured photographer on PhotoSourceFolio: Stephen Donaldson:

(http://www.photosourcefolio.com)

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TREND NOTES

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Are You Findable?

Demographers tell us that in a mobile society, we can expect most people to have a new address every five years. Here at PhotoSource International, we certainly find that to be true when we make a mailing to photographers on our database. Photographers move a lot.

If you have moved recently, it’s important to personally let your buyers and clients know your new address. Don’t rely on the U.S. Postal Service to do the job for you.

In our day and age, technology offers ways we can make sure to stay on tap for our buyers, even during the transition of a move. Your e-mail address and 800# can remain the same, independent of any changes in your mailing address. You won’t lose touch with your photobuyers if you have one or the other or both.

I recently experienced another way that photobuyers can find photographers.

The photo coordinator at Prentice Hall, the book publishing company, wrote to me this month saying she was returning one of my photos (an original B&W 8X10) that her company had used in one of their textbooks. She pointed out that they’ve filed a digitized copy of the photo, and the number stamped on the back of the print is the database designation from the Corporate Digital Archive (CDA) of their parent company, Simon & Schuster. She said in her letter, “You are listed as the photographer.”

It’s nice to know computers, databases, and mergers of large publishing houses can have a beneficial reward for independent photographers. My digitized photo will probably remain in their CDA a long time.

And it’s nice to know that photo, taken in 1983 (twenty years ago), is in an archive that might benefit not only me but my grandchildren, and possibly their grandchildren. –RE

Note: keep up with the trends of photobuyers through the report, “Photobuyer Survey 2003.” You’ll find info about the Survey at http://www.photosource.com/products. -RE

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TRAVEL NOTES

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Traveling Light

I recently drove from Minneapolis across South Dakota, into Wyoming and

Montana and back on a speculative photo shoot for stock libraries. This resulted in a good number of saleable pictures as well as being a really pleasant thing to do.

Having a car (possibly a travel photographer’s best accessory) meant that carrying all sorts of extra kits was easy. I’d planned to do that, so I seemed to have everything with me. This made it easy when I came to shoot things which needed a tripod for instance -- just get it out of the car (already extended) and do the shots. All those additional lenses, like the 55mm macro, that only get used maybe once on a trip, were also on hand. Life is very easy like that with no weight problem to factor in.

How different, now I am in Rome and about to take off for just a few days using public transport only. The intention is to travel by train to Naples, then boat across to Capri and Sorrento from where buses run to Positano and Amalfi. This has really focussed the mind as to what to carry, and I mean carry, as it will be on my back.

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GOODSTUFF

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ADVANCED DIGITAL CAMERA TECHNIQUES, by Jack and Sue Drafahl. Covers how to create special effects, like capturing motion in your images, making panoramic photographs; creating slideshows and multimedia presentations, using your images on the Internet, and more. ($29.95; ISBN: 1-58428-099-9; 150 color photos) Contact: Amherst Media, 175 Rano St, Ste 300, Buffalo NY 14207. Phone: 1 800 622-3278. Fax: 1 800 622-3298. http://www.photosourcefolio.com/bookstoreone.htm#1584280999 .

SMALL TIME OPERATOR, How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, & Stay out of Trouble! 27^th Edition, By Bernard B. Kamoroff, C.P.A. Be your own boss. Turn your idea, your hobby, your skill or trade, into a successful business of your own. This book is an all-new, fully revised and expanded edition with complete and up-to-date information. ($16.95; ISBN: 0-917510-18-6; 224 pages) Contact: Bell Springs Publishing, Box 1240, Willits, CA 95490. Phone: 1 800 515-8050. http://www.photosourcefolio.com/bookstoreone.htm#0917510186 .

ADS WE'VE READ

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4by6.com is the Online Postcard Printing System. The Design and Layout package includes: design and layout of your Business Card or Postcard; project management from start to finish; print order placement with 4by6.com; archiving of your files for future use. Contact: 4by6.com, 527 23^rd Ave, Unit 120, Oakland CA 94606. Phone: 1 866 934-6726. Web: http://www.4by6.com/design.

Who Signs The Model Release?

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As you continue to develop as an editorial stock photographer, and start dealing with more and more editorial buyers at book and magazine publishers, you'll rarely hear the word model release. Here at PhotoSource International, we talk with editorial photobuyers every day, to fill out our PhotoDaily and PhotoLetter marketletters. They rarely mention or require a model release.

Editorial photobuyers don't require a model release, except in rare cases where there could be false inference regarding the photo, or when it deals with a sensitive area. Rarely do you see a newspaper, magazine, or TV photographer carry a model release pad in his/her pocket. When your photographs are informing and educating the public, a model release is not required. The publisher will advise you of this.

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WORKSHOPS

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SOUTH INDIA EXPLORER. January 10-24, 2004. Land price of $3595, includes all ground transportation, two domestic flights, all admission fees, breakfast and dinner daily, and accommodations for fourteen nights in quality hotels. Contact: Photo Explorer Tours, 2506 Country Village, Ann Arbor MI 48103-6500. Phone: 1 800 315-4462. Fax: 1 734 996-1481. E-mail: DECoxPhoto@aol.com . Website: www.PhotoExplorerTours.com

BURMA AND THE TEMPLES OF ANGKOR, with Michele Burgess. January 10 – February 1, 2004. Price: $4,250 from Los Angeles. Contact: In Focus With Michele Burgess, 20741 Catamaran Lane, Huntington Beach, CA 92646-5513. Phone: 1 714 536-6104. E-mail: maburg5820@aol.com . Web: http://www.infocustravel.com .

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

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"If you can find something everyone agrees on, it's wrong."

Mo Udall

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THIS WEEK'S WEB FEATURE

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Climbing up the stock photography ladder? Stuck on the bottom rung? Give a jump start to your stock photo business by advertising your work in the PhotoSourceBOOK 2004. For only $365, you can get a half-page in the annual directory, which is sent to 3,000 photobuyers, plus a year's free membership in the electronic PhotoSourceBANK, where you have your own website. You put descriptions (text) of your photos and specialties at this site, which is searched daily by our photobuyers to find the photos they need. So act today! To sign up: http://www.photosourcebook.com

Watch for developments in the field of stock photography in PhotoAIM's

PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS

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You'll be the first to know…

Note: If the URL is long, it may extend to two lines. In that case - clicking on it won't work. Instead, "copy and paste" the URL.

HP Unveils Consumer PCs, Peripherals - HP announced an upgraded line of

Pavilion desktop PCs, the Pavilion a300 series. The new desktops feature a

combination of everyday computing and digital entertainment tools, including

HP's new Image Zone software. Image Zone is designed to simplify the art of

digital photography.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/pcworld/20030916/tc_pcworld/1

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Controversial Photos Go to San Francisco - - Museum-goers in San Francisco

will get an uncensored look at Alaska wilderness photos that ignited a minor

uproar in the nation's capital this spring.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030912/ap_on_en_ot/alask

a_photos_1

Deals, Rumors and the Battle of the Booths - While several juicy rumors

floated around during the festival, the most significant deal to be

confirmed is a three-year distribution partnership between Corbis and ZUMA

Press. http://www.pdn-pix.com/news/#5

Special Report: Visa Pour L'Image Soul-searching And Debate Abound In

Perpignan

http://www.pdn-pix.com/news/#1

Charting the rites of passage - The psychologically intense portraits by

acclaimed Dutch photographer Rineke Dijkstra trace the journey children take

to adulthood.

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20030917/DIJKSTR

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The Ansel Adams of New York's Bridges - De Salignac may not have left behind

much in the way of biography, but his body of work - at least 20,000 images,

or roughly two-thirds of the entire Bridges, Plant and Structures

collection - is an impressive legacy.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/14/nyregion/14brid.html

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