Getty Images CEO Admits That Sam Greenwood Didn't Just Happen To Be In The Neighborhood
/Darren Rovell reports that last week's images of Tiger were staged.
Today, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera and I asked Getty Images CEO Jonathan Klein on "Power Lunch" how it all worked out.
On how the deal came together: "Over a long period of time, Getty Images has established itself as the gold standard in terms of not only the image quality, but the way we behave. As a result of that, we don't do paparazzi images and as a result of that, we often get a called in either for a non-profit basis like we do all the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie photos entirely non-profit...We were approached and Tiger happened to know the photographer (Sam Greenwood) and has known him for a long time."
On how much Getty made on the photo: "Very little because the deal that we did with them was we would make them available to the other wire agencies."
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