Comment on The World's Most Inspirational Iceberg Is a FakeComments−GBond10yWe’re still making sales. It’s approaching $1 million. I get about 40 percent of that. It put my kids through college.Wow. Can a stock image still achieve that kind of earnings in today's commodified market?−AtlasLion10yIt started selling way before digital photography, that could explain a lot of it.−stevesearer10yJust found another article which describes other popular stock photos that continue to sell and most of them are older, pre-digital photos as well.The record for a single sale, he says, was about $35,000. “It still brings in some hefty money,” he says. [1][1] http://www.pdnonline.com/features/Stock-Photos-That-Ke-1294....−AlbertoGP10yAs a supplement to that article, here is a blog post linking to it that contains those pictures:http://bintphotobooks.blogspot.de/2010/12/shelf-life-for-sto...
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Wow. Can a stock image still achieve that kind of earnings in today's commodified market?
It started selling way before digital photography, that could explain a lot of it.
Just found another article which describes other popular stock photos that continue to sell and most of them are older, pre-digital photos as well.
[1] http://www.pdnonline.com/features/Stock-Photos-That-Ke-1294....
As a supplement to that article, here is a blog post linking to it that contains those pictures:
http://bintphotobooks.blogspot.de/2010/12/shelf-life-for-sto...