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Contact Press Images Selects PhotoShelter as their Online Image Archive and Distribution System; Contact photographers David Burnett and Kristen Ashburn to present their work May 15 at the Apple Store in New York City.


NEW YORK New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 -- BitShelter LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol.

LLC - Logical Link Control
, today announced that Contact Press Images has chosen technology developed by PhotoShelter to make their image archive available from Contact's website. PhotoShelter (www.PhotoShelter.com) is the industry standard for online image archiving and distribution.

Contact Press Images, was founded in 1976 by photographer David Burnett David Burnett is one of the pre-eminent magazine photojournalists in the world. His work from the 1979 Iranian revolution was published extensively in Time magazine (including their famous "Man of the Year" portrait of the Ayatollah Khomeni).  and editor Robert Pledge. Member photographers are some of the world's finest World's Finest may refer to:
  • A number of DC Comics- related media, typically involving the teaming up of iconic superheroes Superman and Batman.
  • World's Finest Comics
 photojournalists The is a list of notable photojournalists from throughout history:
  • Eddie Adams - Pulitzer Prize winner
  • Altaf Qadri - Award winning Kashmiri photojournalist
  • Timothy Allen - British photojournalist
  • Mohamed Amin - Kenyan photojournalist
 including Alexandra Avakian, Nadia Benchallal, Stephen Dupont, Giorgia Fiorio, Frank Fournier, Lori Grinker, Kenneth Jarecke, Yunghi Kim, Annie Leibovitz, Don McCullin, Dilip Mehta, and Alon Reininger.

Associate members and special contributors include Patrick Artinian, Kristen Ashburn, Jonathan Becker, Nick Danziger, Justin Guariglia, Sean Hemmerle, James Hill, Andrew Kaufman, Edward Keating, Charles Ommanney, and Sebastiao Salgado. The collection also encompasses the archives of Li Zhensheng, foremost documentarian doc·u·men·tar·i·an   also doc·u·men·ta·rist
n.
One that makes documentaries or a documentary.
 of the Chinese Cultural Revolution and Alfred Wertheimer, who created some of most intimate images of Elvis on the cusp of stardom. The estates of renown photojournalists Gilles Caron and Olivier Rebbot are also represented.

"The innovative technology that PhotoShelter has developed is enabling us to implement advanced features while retaining the look and feel of Contact's website," said Jeffrey D. Smith, Executive Director of Contact Press Images. "Our brand is important to us, and PhotoShelter's system is not only robust, but flexible enough for us to adapt it to our corporate identity."

Contact will be using the PhotoShelter MU (Multi-User) product, designed to be used by organizations with image assets who want the ability to easily manage, license and distribute them. PhotoShelter MU is a "many user, single archive" system which allows users to set up groups of Editors, Contributors and Clients with varying levels of access.

"We're thrilled that Contact has been added to our growing list of clients," said Allen Murabayashi, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board.  of BitShelter, LLC, the creators of PhotoShelter. "Contact's archive is a monumental collection of images spanning 30 years of incredible history and representing a range of talent that reads like a veritable Who's Who of documentary photography."

Contact Press Images co-founder and legendary photojournalist David Burnett, along with associate member and fellow photojournalist Kristen Ashburn will be presenting their work at a special PhotoShelter event to be held at the Apple Store in New York City New York City: see New York, city.
New York City

City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S.
 (SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. ) on Monday, May 15, starting at 6:30pm. The event is open to the public.

About PhotoShelter

PhotoShelter is an image delivery and archival platform providing secure, locally and geographically redundant storage with 24-hour online accessibility. It allows photographers to effortlessly publish galleries, sell images, syndicate content with RSS feeds and integrate seamless search and publishing capabilities to their own websites.
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