When a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Debates, Give or Take A great discussion of the ideas behind a traveling photo show: “Controversies: A Legal and Ethical History of Photography.” In the article Michael Kimmelman discusses what he calls “the messy, philosophical heart of photography” which involves everything from the ethics of street photography to [...]
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Shepard Fairey ripped off my picture first Ed Nachtrieb took a picture of two Chinese soldiers in Beijing. That iconic image was used by Fairy in a poster. The comment thread is fascinating. This is a discussion of copyright, citation, ethics and what exactly original artwork is. Fascinating and no doubt all of us have [...]
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This is a trailer for Nina Paley’s full length animated feature: Sita Sings the Blues. Nina’s earlier work, Fetch was a wonderful early animation that showed a bit of her creativity but Sita takes it to another level (another world). In the process of releasing Sita, Nina ran into issues surrounding her use of some [...]
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Cold shoulder from Coldplay The British rock band Coldplay’s management has decided to change the rules by which the band is photographed essentially hogging all rites to all photographs. If photographers don’t adhere to the new contract they’re not allowed access to the band. A number of high profile rock photographers are rebelling and writing [...]
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The Obama Poster Photographer ID’d This is a fascinating story and Mike Cramer did a great investigative job figuring it out. Congratulations to Reuters and Reuters photographer Jim Young for letting this go by without a copyright fight. [via Derek Powazek]
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Iron Man and Me: A great story about how this image got used in the movie Iron Man. Wish I’d read this before I watched the movie. Remind me to take more shots of the shuttle assembly building! [via Derek Powazek]
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The Big Picture has a great collection of images of the 2008 Olympics in China: Beijing 2008 – It’s a wrap. Notice that unlike many of the collections circulating around the web these days, these pictures are copyrighted and the photographers who took them are cited. Tip for people passing collections of great images around [...]
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