On Jan 20, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > Paul Stenquist wrote: > >> >> On Jan 20, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Kenneth Waller wrote: >> >>> I don't know, but it would seem there are copyright issues in what she's >>> doing. >> >> Quite Obviously, a lot of skill and artistic ability is required to achieve >> the >> results she's accomplished. > > Nope. It's very easy to do this stuff with recent versions of > Photoshop. > > And I think altering another artist's work without permission is vile.
Doing so destructively? I agree with you. But when it involves a non-destructive copy, I think that this subject is one that spans a generational divide. There is a lot of music these days ( for certain values of music ) that involves "sampling", where they take pieces of other recordings, and play and mix them together to come up with an entirely new musical piece. Some people consider this vile, others equate it to a DJ playing and mixing songs at a club. A lot of us grew up when doing so was tantamount to drawing a mustache on the Mona Lisa, but with digital copies, things are different. Also, note that many of her photos were from situations where color photography was not possible, or practical. The civil war photo when color simply wasn't available, or news photos where I'm sure the photographer had to shoot with what ever was in the camera that was in their hands at the moment. I suspect that a lot of the news photographers whose works were colorized didn't have the resources to shoot color and shot black and white because there wasn't c41 processing available in the war zone. Are any of the photographers whose works she colorized still alive? Has anyone asked them what they thought? Sometimes a derivative work can be brilliant in it's own right: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q75qJ3vCmBw Then there is this commentary on a derivative work: http://exileonmoanstreet.blogspot.com/2010/08/if-andy-warhol-painted-his-campbells.html -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
