The Stanford University Libraries have acquired the complete archive of photographer Douglas Menuez, which encompasses his editorial photojournalism and fine-art documentary work as well as recent advertising projects. Most significant, the library believes, is the inclusion of more than 250,000 negatives documenting the growth of Silicon Valley.

Menuez's rise to prominence began as an intern at the Washington Post, followed by assignments for national publications including Time, Newsweek and Life. Through the course of his career, his social documentary work covered the famine in Ethiopia, the destruction of the Amazon, the AIDS crisis, drug wars and several presidential campaigns. He won numerous awards...

Microsoft has teamed with Fuji Photo Film USA to connect digital photographers with retailers for convenient printing of digital pictures. Fujifilm's Get the Picture Online service is now accessible through the Windows XP Online Print Wizard, MSN Photos and Microsoft Digital Image Suite. This will allow consumers to order professionally processed digital prints directly from a Windows XP-based PC for pickup in as little as an hour at participating Fujifilm retail photo centers, including those at Sam's Club, Ritz Camera Centers and Wolf Camera.

Once a photo or group of photos is selected on the Windows XP desktop, consumers can click on the Order Prints Online icon and elect to pick up their prints at the photo center of their choice or have them mailed to their homes. Pickup locations are chosen via...

London-based Alamy Images has joined the Image Partner Program of OnRequest Images, Custom Stock, with headquarters in Seattle. Alamy will market OnRequest photography on its stock site at alamy.com, allowing clients to search and license images online.

The creation of the Image Partner Program and partnership with Alamy enables OnRequest Images to increase the exposure of its more than 1,600 professional photographers.

The Alamy web site was launched in February 2001 to provide a single source for royalty-free and traditionally licensed images. Currently, it offers access to the work of more than 2,500 photographers and 175 specialist agencies...

Reuters.co.uk has launched a photo section featuring the work of the Reuters International team of photographers. Visitors to the site can choose from a range of galleries offering images related to world news stories, major sporting events and the entertainment world, taken by the service's network of 600 photographers. The site also offers animated slide shows displaying some of the more striking collections of recent Reuters photography, and allows users to browse and buy prints.

New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority is seeking to ban photography from the city's subways and buses, and the National Press Photographers Association is asking journalists to join in the fight against the proposed ban by submitting public comments. The change in MTA policy would make photography on the historic subway system punishable by a $25 fine and up to 10 days in prison, according to NPPA. The MTA cites the need to increase security on the transportation lines and to prevent terrorism as the reasons for the ban.

Although the proposed regulations contain an exception for journalists with NYPD press...

The American Society of Media Photographers, having reviewed a copy of what is allegedly a new freelancer contract from Condé Nast, calls it one of the worst the organization's staff has ever seen. Although the contract appears to leave the photographer with marketable rights, the reality is that it comes very close to assigning all rights to Condé Nast, according to ASMP, which is urging photographers to negotiate changes before signing the contract.

The contract does not deal with compensation, leaving the specifics of each assignment to be arranged on a case-by-case basis, ASMP reports. The society also warns that Condé Nast will have the exclusive rights to first publication...

Ivey Imaging, based in Seattle, has acquired the assets of Southern California Screen Printing, including a specially designed 37,000-square-foot production facility and a broad range of technology and equipment. Ivey also recently established a sales office in Los Angeles.

Southern California Screen Printing, founded in Fontana, Calif.,in 1987, includes among its clients such companies as 20th Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Kroger and Imax.

Rich Ayres, owner of SoCal, will continue with the company as vice president of business development.

Danita Delimont Stock Photography, based in Bellevue, Wash., has launched a visual search feature on its web site, danitadelimont.com.

After conducting a standard keyword search, the user can use the visual search tool to browse through the results to find an image that is close to what he or she has in mind. Selecting an icon beneath the image causes the search feature to re-sort the images pulled up by the original keyword search, placing the closest visual matches at the top of the page.

Both traditional keyword search and visual search options are available. The company offers more than 70,000 images online.

The George Eastman House and the International Center of Photography have allied to create PhotoMuse.org, a collaborative web site designed to provide a free resource for the study of photography at work inthe world. A prototype version of the site, containing more than 1,600 images, currently is available. When completed in 2006, the site is expected to include almost 200,000 photographs from both collections.

The Images for Conservation Fund's Pro-Tour of Nature Photography has received applications from 95 landowners who would like to participate in the event, scheduled for next April in the Texas Hill Country.

The Pro-Tour, which will match nature photographers with private landowners, seeks to foster greater wildlife conservation through the promotion of photo tourism income for private landowners (see PhotoMedia, Summer 2004, p. 34). The landowner applicant pool will be narrowed from 95 applicants to 20 finalists, who will be matched...