Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/04/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Street shooting
From: "Alan Hull" <hull@vaggeryd.mail.telia.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 16:11:54 +0200

Carl Socolow wrote

> Did Robert Frank get permission from the people he photographed? Matthew
> Brady? Dorothea Lange? There would be vast gaps in our visual culture
> and history if these conditions existed in the past.

Good point Carl, but surely the value of those images is mainly historical.
 Maybe the answer to the problem is a sort of statute of limitations on the
publication of unreleased photographs.  Say five years,  that way the
archives are secure for future generations,   A two year limit would secure
even the book publishers from legal action.  

Alan Hull