The Business of Photography

Operating a digital photography business is no small task. Our experts cover all the issues related to the business of photography from copyright issues to studio concerns, here.

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 Vision To Visuals: Culture Club A nightlife hot spot uses artistic fashion photography to set the tone Of all experiences in New York City that can make a newcomer feel like an instant New Yorker, spending an evening in one of the city's famed nightclubs has to be among the top five.  Read More...

Tuesday, December 20, 2011 The Fair Use Quandary The anatomy of a copyright infringement dispute Much has been written recently regarding Jay Maisel's enforcement of his copyrights, and especially of the demand that he made against Portland, Oregon-based Andy Baio, a self-described writer and tech entrepreneur, arising from Baio's unauthorized use of the cover art from one of Miles Davis' records.  Read More...

Tuesday, November 15, 2011 Vision To Visuals: A Moveable Feast Painter Nicole Etienne experiments with photography and printing "I was hooked like a magpie to shiny things,"says Nicole Etienne, the dynamic young painter known for her "luscious" paintings, of her first encounter with print materials at Duggal.   Read More...

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Stay On Track Before filing a lawsuit, consider the possible ramifications and what victory or loss will accomplish One of the inevitable realities that any business involved in image creation and/or licensing will encounter is discovering instances where the business’ copyrights have been infringed.  Read More...

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 Vision To Visuals: Art And The Downtown Alliance Wrapping post-9/11 construction zones in transformative art The 10th anniversary of 9/11 arrived in our city with grace.   Read More...

Tuesday, October 4, 2011 Misinformation: Business Tech Traditional media isn’t the only outlet for reportage We know the familiar archetype of the photojournalist—the grizzled war veteran who has seen it all and captured it with his lens.  Read More...

Tuesday, August 16, 2011 Under Fire In an era of “cell phone” photojournalism, does the professional photographer still have a role? During the recent uprisings in the Middle East commonly referred to as the Arab Spring, the people of the region were able to circumvent censorship and bring governments to their knees, thanks in large part to cell phone and mobile digital technology.  Read More...

Thursday, August 11, 2011 Vision To Visuals: Audacity! A multimedia artist who embodies zest for living Fashion photography and wildlife photography are such distinctly different genres that to imagine the two together in a single frame, one must attempt to reconcile the paradoxical imagery of fashion models in glamorous urban studios against the thrilling scenes of wild beasts in their natural habitats.  Read More...

Tuesday, June 7, 2011 Vigilantes Taking matters into your own hands can backfire, so don’t play the fool when enforcing your copyrights. In the Wild West world of the Internet, everything isn’t necessarily as cut-and-dried as it seems. In this age of digital imaging, it's only a matter of time before anyone who distributes images, electronically or otherwise, will find his or her images used without consent and copyrights infringed.   Read More...

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