Photography enthusiasts were atwitter at the ninth annual All Things Digital conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., when Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced on June 1 that the 140-character company will begin to offer photo sharing and improved search capabilities....

Step aside, American consumers. Within the next five years, InfoTrends predicts that China will take the lead as the most active demographic among digital camera consumers.

According to the report, growth in digital camera markets in the United States and western Europe peaked in 2001. As digital cameras have become ever more accessible...

Getty Images has added two more imaging companies to its list of acquisitions: PicScout and Photolibrary.

PicScout is a front-runner in online image use, metadata and licensing technology. With this merger, Getty plans to improve its image identification technology by offering PicScout's tools to their global customer base.

Photolibrary is one of the leading global stock agencies, with more than 10 million images from....

French photographer Patrick Cariou has won his copyright lawsuit against New York artist Richard Prince and the Gagosian Gallery.

The ruling was issued by a federal court in New York earlier this minth, after the judge deemed that Prince had misused Cariou’s images by creating a series of paintings, as well as a collage...

After nearly a year of legal battles, Rick Norsigian, the man who discovered 65 allegedly lost Ansel Adams plates at a garage sale in Fresno, Calif., has settled his legal quarrel with the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust.

As part of their settlement, Norsigian has agreed to stop using the Ansel Adams name, likeness or trademark in connection with the sale of...

The Western Publications Association has honored PhotoMedia magazine with a 2011 Maggie Award in the category of Best Single Editorial Photograph in a Trade Magazine.

The winning photo, of an anglerfish, was taken by Mark Laita and accompanied a profile on him in the Fall 2010 issue of...

With Japan producing 14 percent of the world’s electronics and manufacturing equipment, the shock waves from the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and ongoing nuclear crisis are still being felt two months later in the photography industry.

Camera front-runners such as Canon, Nikon and Sony had dozens of plants based near the earthquake epicenter in northern Japan...

Fighting between the military backed by Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and rebel forces in Libya recently took the lives of two photojournalists: Tim Hetherington, co-director of the Afghanistan-war documentary “Restrepo,” and Chris Hondros, a photographer for Getty Images.

Hetherington and Hondros were known for their work documenting human rights issues by photographing images of war and suffering, so their presence...