A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit brought by photographer Bert Stern against two men he accused of stealing images from his 1962 photo shoot with Marilyn Monroe.

The men, Donald Penny and Michael Weiss, who are also photographers, said they found images in the trash in the 1970s. Stern sued the men last September for $1 million and damages and demanded the return of the seven transparencies...

Four Brooks Institute Visual Journalism program students — Daryl Peveto, Brett Ziegler, Afton Almaraz and Ellen Webber — took home a total of eight awards in the 2008 College Photographer of the Year (CPOY) competition.

Peveto, a graduate student who was also a 2006 and 2007 CPOY winner, won a Silver and a Gold award...

Stock photographers Roger Ressmeyer and Richard Minden are leading a $100 million class-action lawsuit against Getty Images over its Premium Access subscription plan. The Premium Access service is an unadvertised product that Getty offers its high-volume costumers.

Joining Ressmeyer and Minden are 84 other photographers, who claim that Getty has violated copyrights and contracts by including rights-managed images in the Premium Access product...

Seattle-based Blue Earth Alliance has accepted two new projects by western U.S. photographers — Annie Marie Musselman of Seattle and Jon Orlando of Boulder, Colo. — in its fall 2008 sponsorship round.

Blue Earth funds photo-documentary projects twice a year in an effort to foster social change...

The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles has received gifts of nearly 500 pieces to its Department of Photographs since last year. The contributions came from more than 25 individual donors, including collectors, artists' estates and members of the Getty's Photographs Council.

The gifts included two photographs by Liu Zheng from his recent Peking Opera series, the first contemporary Chinese works to enter the Getty Museum's collection. The Getty has also augmented its already strong holdings of prints from Mexican photographers by adding works by Manuel Alvarez Bravo and Graciela Iturbide...

In February, Suzi Eszterhas, of Tiburon, Calif., became the first-ever recipient of Ranger Rick magazine's Photographer of the Year Award. Eszterhas, who has a strong commitment to sharing her love of wildlife with children, was selected for her photographic contributions...

After filing for bankruptcy, Jacksonville, Fla.-based SuperStock has agreed to be bought out by a group of three other stock agencies. Blend, RubberBall and Glow Images outbid Masterfile at $2.8 million for the assets of SuperStock. Masterfile originally planned to spend $1.5 million for SuperStock.

The new joint venture, called RGB, aims to keep SuperStock in business. The companies, however, will remain separate. Blend's Lanny Ziering has been named CEO of SuperStock, which owns a collection of 110,000 images...

Time Inc. CEO Ann S.Moore announced another restructuring of the company's editorial divisions late last year. The reorganization, which was still ongoing at press time, is expected to result in about 600 layoffs, or roughly 6 percent of the media firm's workforce.

Moore aims to centralize the management by dividing its 24 magazines and their web properties into three units: news, entertainment and lifestyle. She says she hopes that this will lead to cross-collaboration between reporters and editors at various magazines. This is the third reorg under Moore since her appointment as CEO in 2002...

San Diego-based photographer Frank Rogozienski recently exhibited his show, "366 | 08," at Subtext Gallery. For the project, Rogozienski took one picture a day for a full year in 2008. The show, which began as an exercise, eventually grew into a broader examination of the everyday world.

Rogozienski is a co-founding member of the artists' cooperative La Luz Loca, originally begun...

Google and Time Inc. have teamed up to bring more than 10 million images from Life magazine to users around the world. The free image portal contains collections from Life's Photo Archive, including some of the most iconic works of the 20th century by photojournalists such as Margaret Bourke-White, Gordon Parks and W. Eugene Smith.

Already, millions of Life images are available for viewing via Google Image Search. Once the online project is complete in the next few months, the archive will be among the largest professional photography collections on the web and one of the largest photo-scanning projects ever undertaken...