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Seminars, Lectures, & Talks

are a natural extension of our work.

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Picture Research Seminars

To successfully handle the visual content for any project the buyer, producer, researcher, designer, or editor needs a variety of skills.


  • A detective's skill for tracking down the right picture and the elusive source.
  • A conductor's skill for blending the needs of art directors, producers, authors, designers, and editors and meeting deadlines.
  • A librarian's skill for organizing and making accessible the information held in licenses, contracts and permission forms.
  • A chess player's skills for creating strategies to provide a wide selecton of usable imagery using the least amount of time and money.
  • Business skills for creating budgets and schedules and following standard industrial procedures.
  • Legal knowledge of copyright, privacy, publicity, and other areas of intellectual property.

Mary Goljenboom created these seminars to teach the skills of picture research.

Visual Content: The Basics Sorting the Sources
Obtaining Rights and Permissions

Demystifying Picture Research