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Adobe Creative Suite Enters the Cloud

07 May 2013
Published in : Industry News

At Adobe's latest Adobe MAX conference, the company announced that it is no longer offering boxed versions of its popular Creative Suite software and instead will supply new versions through its subscriber-based Creative Cloud service.

The change in policy will affect all Adobe software newer than...



Kodak Sells Last Remaining Film, Imaging Divisions

01 May 2013
Published in : Industry News

In an epochal shift within the photographic community, struggling Kodak has sold the last of its core film and imaging divisions as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy procedures, in a deal worth $2.8 billion.

With the agreement, the Rochester, N.Y.-based company will cede control of its Personal Imaging and Document Imaging divisions to...



PhotoMedia Wins Ninth Maggie Award for Publishing Excellence

27 April 2013
Published in : Industry News

The Western Publications Association has honored PhotoMedia magazine with a 2013 Maggie Award in the Best Cover in a Trade Magazine category. It is the second time PhotoMedia has won that category, which is considered one of the most competitive and prestigious of all the Maggie Awards.

The winning cover was for the Spring/Summer 2012 25th Anniversary issue of PhotoMedia, which featured Albert Watson's photograph...



Buhl Photos Earn Highest Auction Price for Private Collection

04 March 2013
Published in : Industry News

A recent Sotheby’s auction of photographic works known as the Buhl Collection beat the expectations of the collection’s private owners by earning more than $12.3 million. The figure represents the highest ever auction price for a private collection of photographs and a third-highest for a single-owner collection.

Before the December 2012 auction, estimates of the auction’s total take ranged from $8 million to $12.2 million. The majority of the proceeds will benefit...



Newsweek Ends 80-Year Run With Hashtag

04 February 2013
Published in : Industry News

In a poignant statement about the fate of print publications worldwide in the last few decades, the once-venerable Newsweek magazine published its final print edition on Dec. 31, 2012, with a hashtag that read “#LastPrintIssue”.

The final cover also features a historic black-and-white photograph of the former Newsweek Building in New York City, with the tower’s old Newsweek logo...



Buyout Program Radically Changed Times Masthead

01 February 2013
Published in : Industry News

After a year of cost-cutting and staff reductions in 2012, Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, began 2013 by telling her staff that the "paper of record" needed to cut 30 newsroom positions, offering in a round of buyouts for senior editors and reporters.

So far, managing editor John Geddes, assistant managing editor Jim Roberts, sports editor Joe Sexton and...



Operation Photo Rescue to Help Hurricane Sandy Victims

21 January 2013
Published in : Industry News

In the wake of devastation from Hurricane Sandy and the flooding that stretched across much of the New Jersey shore and Long Island last fall, much of the focus has been on restoring the immense property damage and rebuilding lives. Now, months later, one group is reaching out to help save memories from cherished photographs that were once thought to be lost in the flood waters.

The nonprofit organization, called Operation Photo Rescue, was created in 2005 by...



Apple, Google Offer Bid on Kodak Patents

31 December 2012
Published in : Industry News

According to a report from Bloomberg, rival firms Apple and Google have forming a consortium to offer $500 million to purchase more than 1,100 digital imaging patents currently held by Kodak and share them in a pool.

Kodak, which is currently going through bankruptcy proceedings and selling off many of its assets, said it wanted more than...