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Shutterstock, Inc. is an American provider of stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools; [4] it is headquartered in New York. [5] Founded in 2003 by programmer and photographer Jon Oringer, [6] Shutterstock maintains a library of around 200 million royalty-free stock photos, [7] vector graphics, and illustrations, [8] with around 10 million video clips and music tracks ...
History. Flickr was launched on February 10, 2004, by Ludicorp, a Vancouver -based company founded by Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake. The service emerged from tools originally created for Ludicorp's Game Neverending, a web-based massively multiplayer online game. Flickr proved a more feasible project, and ultimately Game Neverending was ...
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 ...
Shutterfly, LLC. Shutterfly, LLC. is an American photography, photography products, and image sharing company, headquartered in Redwood City, California. The company is mainly known for custom photo printing services, including books featuring user-provided images, framed pictures, and other objects with custom image prints, including blankets ...
Ochre. Ochre ( / ˈoʊkər / OH-kər; from Ancient Greek ὤχρα (ṓkhra), from ὠχρός (ōkhrós) 'pale'), iron ochre, or ocher in American English, is a natural clay earth pigment, a mixture of ferric oxide and varying amounts of clay and sand. [ 1] It ranges in colour from yellow to deep orange or brown. It is also the name of the ...
Venus de Milo, at the Louvre. Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past. [1]Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes ...
Georgia O'Keeffe, Drawing XIII, 1915, charcoal on paper, 24 3/8 x 18 1/2 in. (61.9 x 47 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art. Drawing XIII is an example of how O'Keeffe began to develop her own sense of design and composition. A rising flame or flowing river are suggested by the curved line on the right side of the drawing.
Iconography, as a branch of art history, studies the identification, description and interpretation of the content of images: the subjects depicted, the particular compositions and details used to do so, and other elements that are distinct from artistic style. The word iconography comes from the Greek εἰκών ("image") and γράφειν ...