Framed as a means to prevent PETA and other animal rights groups from making distorted images of animal farms and operations, a Utah state lawmaker has introduced a bill that would make it a crime to photograph or videotape agricultural operations without permission from the owners. If the bill, Utah House Bill 187, passes, it...

It seems that "lost" photographs have been making quite a reappearance these days. In February, a series of Robert Frank images, take in 1958 as part of commission from The New York Times, were discovered by the family of Louis Silverstein, a longtime art director at the Times. Following the debut of the Times' big announcement about their photo archive blog, "The Lively Morgue," the photographs are also featured on the publications photo news blog, "Lens."...

After two years of denying wrongdoing, Shepard Fairey, the artist who made the iconic "Hope" Obama campaign posters, has plead guilty to a federal criminal charge for destroying documents and falsifying evidence in his lawsuit with the Associated press.According to the court records, Fairey provided false documents during the litigation and asked one of his employees to mislead investigators.

Originally following the lawsuit, Fairey claimed that fair use laws protected his posters and that he had not infringed upon a 2008 image taken by AP photographer Mannie Garcia.

Los Angeles-based photographer Michael D. Jones has filed a lawsuit against music producer Quincy Jones (no relation) for using one of the photographer's portraits without permission. The photograph in question, an image Quincy Jones and other musicians taken at a recording session in 1995, was allegedly used for ads and packaging materials for a signature line of Harman headphones. As part of his lawsuit, Jones has said that he was not asked to sign a contract when taking the photos, but at one time, gave Quincy Jones several 8x10 prints of his images...

Film director Jeff Orlowski has won the Audience Award at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Festival in March for his debut feature, "Chasing Ice," following the work of National Geographic photographer James Balog and his multi-year photography project to capture the earth's changing ecosystem. The film — which debuted in January at the Sundance Film Festival and is scheduled to screen at the Seattle International Film Festival in May—uses many of Balog's still images and time-lapse videos of vanishing...

Thirty-six large-scale prints by contemporary American photographer William Eggleston brought in $5.9 million at a Christie's auction in March. Meant to expand the reach Eggleston's work, digital pigment prints were made for this auction. This is the first batch of Eggleston images not printed with his traditional dye-transfer technique...

Selecting "blind carbon copy" or "carbon copy" can make a big difference for an e-mail message — at least that's what celebrity photo agency Retna discovered when they sent out a message to more than 250 contributors in January to alert them of a simple address change. After receiving the e-mail, recipients hit...

All editorial contributors for Getty Images should take notice of a new contract in place this year—one, all-encompassing deal that gives 35 percent royalties for all image sales. Currently, there are multiple contracts in place that pay some contributors up to a 50 percent royalty. Getty made the announcement in November and gave contributors 30 days to sign...

It's hard to believe more than 11 years have passed since I first met Gary Halpern and began editing and writing for PhotoMedia . Though I've never been a professional photographer, I've always been drawn to the exquisitely composed image. I was raised on the impeccable photography of magazines such as National Geographic and old issues of Life, which both inspired me to take some darkroom courses and experiment with....

United States-based private equity firm The Blackstone Group will buy 44 percent of Leica Camera. The deal, which will be completed by...