Stock photography information

Stock photography is the supply of photographs that are often licensed for specific uses.^[1] The stock photo industry, which began to gain hold in the 1920s,^[1] has established models including traditional macrostock photography,^[2] midstock photography,^[3] and microstock photography.^[4] Conventional stock agencies charge from several hundred to several thousand US dollars per image, while microstock photography may sell for around US$0.25 cents.^[4] Professional stock photographers traditionally place their images with one or more stock agencies on a contractual basis,^[1] while stock agencies may accept the high-quality photos of amateur photographers through online submission.^[5]

Themes for stock photos are diverse, although Megan Garber of The Atlantic wrote in 2012 that "one of the more wacky/wondrous elements of stock photos is the manner in which, as a genre, they've developed a unifying editorial sensibility. To see a stock image is... to know you're seeing a stock image."^[5] Historically notable traditional stock photo agencies have included RobertStock, the Bettman Archive in New York,^[1] and the Hulton Archive in the United Kingdom,^[6] among many others.^[7] In the 1990s companies such as Photodisc in Seattle, Washington, began selling CD ROMs with packs of images, pioneering the royalty-free licensing system at a time when Rights Managed licensing was the norm in the stock industry.^[7] There was a great amount of consolidation among stock photo agencies^[8]^[9] between 1990 and the mid-2000s, particularly through Corbis and Getty Images.^[1] The early microstock company iStockphoto was founded in May 2000,^[10] followed by companies such as Dreamstime,^[11] fotoLibra,^[12]^[13] Can Stock Photo,^[14] 123RF, Shutterstock, JumpStory and Adobe Stock.^[15]

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