Beyonce banned photogs from her tour so no one will take an unflattering pic of her

Here are some assorted photos of Beyonce performing during concerts in Amsterdam and Bratislava. Some of these pics are from photo agencies and some of the photos are from Beyonce’s Tumblr (you can see more here). I have a point by describing the origins so specifically! Do you remember how Beyonce got super-pissed that Buzzfeed (and other sites) published some unflattering photos of her Halftime performance? Her publicist demanded that Buzzfeed pull the photos, and her publicist also tried to get the photo agency, Getty, to delete the photos from their archives.

This is because Queen Beyonce will not let you see an unflattering photo. Beyonce has her own personal photographer and videographer on her 24-7 staff (all of which goes into the Beyonce Archives), and she’d prefer it if you just used those photos. Now that Beyonce is on tour, she doesn’t want peasant photographers taking another unflattering photo of her, so she’s BANNING ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS from her tour. Except her personal photographer, of course.

According to Jezebel, Beyonce has banned professional photographers from her tour and she’s releasing – through her subsidiary Parkwood Entertainment – pre-approved images through the Associated Press. So, the AP just got in bed with Project Only Flattering Photos of Beyonce. But… as Fstoppers (via Jezebel) reported:

Beyoncé banned all professional photographers from her shows, hoping this way no unflattering photos will make it to mainstream media.

But we all know how media works – they will do anything possible to get images that other publications don’t have. If they cant send a photographer to give them original photos, the next best thing they can do is buy photos from fans in the front rows in the arena (cameras were not allowed, but no one can take away phones). It’s the next best thing for them, and a huge nightmare for Beyoncé and her publicist.

[From Fstoppers Via Jezebel]

When I first read this story, I thought first to the photos I’d seen of Beyonce on tour on WENN, and how those were probably about to be pulled. And then I thought about her Tumblr, which has been a God-send for a blogger like me. Whenever we don’t have photos of Bey at our photo agencies, I just check her Tumblr. She only posts flattering photos of herself, of course, but the pics are there to be used and it’s like a gift she’s giving us. I think a lot of outlets will probably be fine with only using the photos on her Tumblr. But I would love it if a fan got an unflattering photo of control-freak Beyonce and it got posted everywhere.

Photos courtesy of Beyonce’s Tumblr, Michal Smrcek/WENN.com and WENN.

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