Stock Photography & Pricing

Getty Images
Founded by the Mark Getty, grandson of oilman J. Paul Getty, Getty Images is now the largest stock photo agency in the world. Rights-managed and royalty-free stock images. Extensive sports, news images and archival images. You can read more about Mark Getty and Getty Images in this USA Today article. Getty Images announced on February 9, 2006 that it has purchased microstock agency, iStockPhoto for $50 million. You can read more about this development in this PDN Online article

Corbis
Owned by Bill Gates of Microsoft, Corbis is the only major competition to Getty Images. Corbis features historical archives, news, sports along with the usual stock for advertising and design uses. You can read more about Corbis in this PDN Online article

Maria Piscopo - Creative Services Consultant for Artists, Designers and Photographers
A frequent contributor to Communication Arts magazine and lectures to photographer and designer groups. Photographers, artists, designers and clients will find her website a rich source of information. She has written several books about self-promotion and marketing for photographers and artists.

Burns Auto Parts - Consultants (Leslie Burns-Dell'Acqua, artist representative)
The company is named after her grandfather's auto parts business, but Leslie Burns actually does represent artists along with consulting and writing about the business of photography. Her articles frequently appear in Picture magazine. See various topics concerning the business of photography under the "Manuals" heading at her website.

Veer
A Canadian company, based in Calgary, has rights-managed and royalty-free stock photography plus type collections, motion (video) clips and illustration.

Stock Artists Alliance
The Stock Artists Alliance was formed in by a group of stock photographers in 2001 to help protect the rights of stock photographers worldwide. Lots of information on various stock photography licensing models. If you use stock photography visit this site.

Picture Archive Council of America
This is a organization of the picture archive community. Sustaining members include Photo District News (a professional photographer's magazine) and Communication Arts (a visual artist's magazine). News on the stock photography industry.

Stock Photo Price Calculator
Calculate the price of a stock photo for advertising, corporate or editorial use. This gives a range of prices you might expect to pay for a single, non-exclusive use of a photo. A service provided by Photographer's Index.

Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS)
A coalition of photographers, stock agencies and others working toward defining terms and contracts used in image licensing. The eventual goal is to create a standardized system of licensing with a common language.

Seth Resnick Photography Pricing Guidelines
Pricing guidelines for stock photography by photographer Seth Resnick. His website has many resources and links for both clients and photographers.

FoodPix
Rights-managed all-food stock picture agency. This is a specialty agency, now part of Jupiterimages. Jupiterimages is owned by Jupitermedia Corporation, the same company which owns Comstock (see following entry).

Comstock
Offers flat-rate and royalty-free stock images. Comstock, in business since 1976, was purchased by Jupitermedia Corporation in April 2004 and is now part of Jupiterimages.

Masterfile
Rights-managed stock and royalty-free images. Originally formed in 1981, this company has been around for a long time (at least by current standards) and is still independent.