That's an interesting article, which comes back to what I believe several of our august members said in relation to Shel's photo that got this whole thing rolling.
The use of the photo is what's moral or not. Taking the photo in and of itself is an amoral issue (that's me talking, not necessarily our august members).
We all take photos that maybe we realize later just didn't work. I'm not talking morality here, just the "what the hell was I thinking when I took that one?" category.
But, we also, on the spur of the moment, take photos that shouldn't really be shown in certain venues or in certain contexts. So, to get back to Shel's photo, if it were to be part of a reportage series on Life in America, or Life in the West, or Life in the First World, or whatever, it might be okay. If Shel were to sell it to an ad agency for a dietary weight loss supplement, I'd never speak to him again! <hyperbole for the purposes of emphasizing my point...> <g>
Thanks again for an interesting article, Bob,
cheers, frank
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From: Bob Walkden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: frank theriault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: The morality of taking a photograph Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2003 11:36:41 +0000
Hi,
There's an interesting article here which touches on this question of permission, use and re-use, and raises some of the same issues that people have discussed with respect to Shel's photo: http://www.zonezero.com/magazine/indexen.html
Unfortunately I can't find a way to link directly to the 3-page article. So follow the link above, type 'Hurn Parr' into the search box, Click 'Search', then open one of the Untitled links that appear. At the bottom you can use the page navigation to get to the first page in the article. It's worth the effort.
The essay is by Colin Jacobson, who is one of the UK's leading photo editors.
He discusses Martin Parr's work used for very unflattering
advertisements, and has comments from David Hurn, Parr's colleague in
Magnum, and others.
-- Cheers, Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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