Corbis Images Appoints Vice President of Commercial Photography to Develop Industry-Leading Commercial Content.Business Editors, High-Tech/Photo Writers SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 13, 2000 Patrick Donehue, former executive at Getty (operating system) getty - A Unix program which sets terminal type, modes, speed and line discipline for a serial port, and is used in the login process. Images, strengthens Corbis' expertise in the commercial photography market Corbis Images(R), Corbis' image-licensing division (www.corbisimages.com), today announced the appointment of Patrick Donehue to its senior management team as vice president of commercial photography. In his position, Donehue will be critical in his efforts to support Corbis Images' photographers in producing innovative, cutting-edge photography to meet the changing needs of advertising and graphic design professionals worldwide. "In the past six months, Corbis has demonstrated its commitment to the commercial photography market through its recent acquisition of Sharpshooters and its pending acquisition of The Stock Market," said Leslie Hughes, senior vice president, Corbis and president, Corbis Images. "By bringing Patrick's expertise and creative vision together with the talents of our existing staff and photographers, we have assembled as·sem·ble v. as·sem·bled, as·sem·bling, as·sem·bles v.tr. 1. To bring or call together into a group or whole: assembled the jury. 2. a team which will develop premium content for our commercial clients, adding to our existing strength as the leader in the editorial market." Donehue joins Corbis from Gettyone, a division of Getty Images, Inc., where he served as Director of Photography for Special Collections In library science, special collections (often abbreviated to Spec. Coll. or S.C.) is the name applied to a specific repository within a library which stores materials of a "special" nature. . He began his career as a commercial photographer, and then transferred his expertise to the management of stock photography agencies, working at Photo Researchers, Inc., ALLSTOCK, and Tony Stone Images. Well-known as an industry expert, Donehue is a member of the Executive Committee of the Picture Agency Council of America (PACA), and is on the Board of Advisors of the Center for Photographic Projects. About Corbis Corporation Corbis Corporation is the definitive destination for photography and fine art in the digital age. With 65 million images -- 2.1 million online -- it is the leading provider of digital images to both the consumer and creative professional markets. Corbis.com is the place where consumers can send e-cards, download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. personal use digital images, and order framed and unframed prints and posters. The company also provides imagery to creative professionals in magazine, book, and newspaper publishing, advertising and graphic design, and Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and new media publishing. Corbis is also the world's leading news photography agency. The company uses its extensive Internet technology to allow customers to quickly and conveniently access and purchase images. Headquartered in Seattle, with offices in 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 , London, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. , Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Miami and Paris, the privately owned company has approximately 1200 employees worldwide. For more information about Corbis and its products and services, call 800/260-0444, 425/641-4505, fax 425/746-1618, or visit the Web site at www.corbis.com. Corbis and Corbis Images are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Corbis Corporation in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other countries. |
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