Estelle Blaschke: Banking on Images Category_Fisheye Lenses If you’re shooting a shiny

If you’re shooting a shiny object

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Estelle Blaschke: Banking on Images Category_Fisheye Lenses If you’re shooting a shinyThe role of photo agencies and commercial visual image banks no longer remains a blind spot in the history of photography. In this fascinating and timely look into two of the largest photographic agencies, the Bettman Archive and Corbis (founded by Bill Gates) photo archive, scholar Estelle Blaschke examines the criteria used in selecting images, how their value is determined and the concept of photography behind image banks. Emerging in the beginning