Photography
MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO
We will likely never know whether a monkey, put in a room with typewriter and given sufficient time, will actually type out Hamlet, but we do know now that a monkey given a camera can take a pretty good selfie. Wildlife photographer David Slater found this out when, during a shoot in Indonesia, a crested black macaque stole…
Read MoreAPPROPRIATION AND TRANSFORMATION
Patrick Cariou, a professional photographer, spent six years among the Rastafarians of Jamaica. and in 20oo he published a book of portrait and landscape photographs taken during this sojourn. Yes Rasta sold modestly, earning Cariou about $8,000 in royalties from sales of about 5700 copies. Four of those copies were purchased by appropriation artist Richard Prince. Prince, without…
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Dennis Morris was a photographer who recorded the Sex Pistols’ legendary 1977 tours, capturing at least one iconic on-stage image of Johnny Rotten and Sid Vicious. Russell Young is an artist who found that image on the internet and used it, without Morris’s permission, in a series of Warhol-like pieces. Morris v. Young, decided yesterday by Judge Gee of…
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