Not So Candid Camera
From nj.com:
"It is, everyone agrees, a beautiful picture. The subject, Erno Nussenzweig, is an 84-year-old retired diamond merchant...[t]he photographer, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, has filled some of the world's top galleries with his work...
Four years ago, their worlds unwittingly collided in Times Square, when diCorcia discreetly photographed Nussenzweig...The photo went into a book...and diCorcia has sold several prints for $20,000 apiece. Then, Nussenzweig learned about the picture this spring and launched a court battle that poses an intriguing question: Which is more important, art or privacy? His $1.6 million lawsuit...also has created an uproar in the photographic world where the street traditionally is fair game and a subject's permission typically isn't needed."
I don't think the question is art OR privacy. I think it's pay OR NOT pay. It's about the money. There is something wrong about taking someone's picture without permission and then selling it at $20,000 a pop.
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And only in a liberal court would this even be an issue. "The street is fair game; it's the phtog's RIGHT to take a picture and profit off of it. There is no such thing as the photog having a RESPONSIBILITY to the subject of his photo," they will say.
Welcome to the post-modernn world...
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