We have a long list of links this week including shocking news from Getty Images, a collaboration between Magnum Photos and the Smithsonian, where to get your aura photographed and much, much more.

• In news that has shocked many this week, Getty Images announced that they will be making their images free to use. The British Journal of Photography is all over the story, including responses from ASMP and NPPA.
• Remember what you looked like in 1987? Karl Baden does. He took a photo of himself every day for the last 27 years.
• Dog photo booths are much cooler than people photo booths. Photos by Lynn Terry.
• The Northern Lights have been putting on a show in the UK. Some of the images look like scenes from Harry Potter.
• The LA Times interviewed veteran National Geographic photographer William Albert Allard.
• The going rate for getting your aura photographed seems rather reasonable.
• Lenscape and Shifra are two new app online photography magazines.
• “My photographs are a more useful first draft than my attempted prose was, a richer archive than the pages of my binders.” Casey Cep explores the relationship between photography and writing.
• Do you have $50,000 burning a hole in your pocket? If so, you can buy Andy Warhol’s Polaroid camera.
• Learn how Time made the panoramic image atop One World Trade Center.
• A compilation list of image libraries owned by the federal government.
• “Khalid Mohammed, a photographer for the Associated Press, took a picture 10 years ago of two charred American bodies hanging from a bridge and surrounded by a crowd of cheering Iraqis.” Here’s the impact a single image had on the Iraq War.
• At the Paris Exposition in 1900, W.E.B. DuBois presented an exhibit about the history and “present condition” of African Americans. The exhibit had many photographs, and 114 years later we can see them online at the Library of Congress website.
• Magnum Photos and the Smithsonian have teamed up for an exhibit called Unintended Journeys. The exhibit “provides a glimpse into the lives of humans displaced by global climate change and some of the most devastating natural disasters in the past decade.”
• Are your cell phone camera, DSLR, and point and shoot not enough for you? NPR did a story on a tiny camera that clips on your clothes to record everything you see.
• And finally, the Land of the Tiger exhibit opens this weekend at the Jacksonville Zoo.