{"id":9251,"date":"2017-08-13T08:16:39","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T12:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=9251"},"modified":"2017-08-11T22:10:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T02:10:05","slug":"and-just-who-owns-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/and-just-who-owns-what\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8230; and just who owns what?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9253\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Untitled-Cowboy-_-100-Photographs-_-The-Most-Influential-Images-of-All-Time.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9253\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9253\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Untitled-Cowboy-_-100-Photographs-_-The-Most-Influential-Images-of-All-Time-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph of a photograph sold for over $1 million USD in 2005!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. George Dunbar has been fascinated with copyright laws for years. On August 9th, he sent me an email link to TIME magazine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/100photos.time.com\/photos\/richard-prince-cowboy\">100 photos and in particular one of a cowboy by Richard Prince<\/a>. Have a look at the TIME web site and the short videos there.<\/p>\n<p>The issue of ownership is especially sensitive to professional photographers, as their photographs are their bread and butter, generating funds to cover costs and offer some profit. Who owns a copy of a photograph? Who <em>should<\/em> own the copy?<\/p>\n<p>TIME magazine states, &#8220;The idea for the project that would challenge everything sacred about ownership in photography came to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Prince\">Richard Prince<\/a> when he was working in the tear-sheet department at Time Inc. While he deconstructed the \u00adpages of magazines for the archives, Prince\u2019s attention was drawn to the ads that appeared alongside articles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One ad in particular caught his eye: the macho image of the Marlboro Man riding a horse under blue skies. And so, in a process he came to call \u00ad<strong>rephotography <\/strong>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rephotography\">wikipedia suggests a different definition of the term here<\/a>], Prince took pictures of the ads and cropped out the type, leaving only the iconic cowboy and his surroundings. <em>That Prince didn\u2019t take the original picture meant little to collectors.<\/em> In 2005 Untitled (\u00adCowboy) sold for $1.2 million at auction, then the highest publicly recorded price for the sale of a contemporary \u00adphotograph.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Others were less enthusiastic. Prince was sued by a photographer for using copyrighted images, but the courts ruled largely in Prince\u2019s favor. That wasn\u2019t his only victory. Prince\u2019s rephotography helped to create a new art form\u2014photography of photography\u2014that foreshadowed the era of digital sharing and upended our understanding of a photo\u2019s authenticity and ownership. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. George Dunbar has been fascinated with copyright laws for years. On August 9th, he sent me an email link to TIME magazine&#8217;s 100 photos and in particular one of a cowboy by Richard Prince. Have a look at the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/and-just-who-owns-what\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[705,12],"tags":[1349,1350,891],"class_list":["post-9251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-processes","tag-rephotography","tag-richard-prince","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9251"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9256,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9251\/revisions\/9256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}