Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]here is the one from france from the BJP e-letter "French privacy laws scupper Chapman's touring exhibition A photographer who lived in France for 30 years, and who documented many aspects of French life, has had a major touring exhibition postponed indefinitely. Harold Chapman photographed street life throughout the Fifties and Sixties, and also portrayed those who inhabited the most basic accommodation in the city . He has had a book of his work, Beats á Paris (Beats of Paris), published in Germany, and was about to issue a major edition of postcards in France. Substantiated fears that the published pictures could give rise to compensation claims under France's stringent privacy laws have resulted in the postcards being cancelled. 'It isn't only pictures of the present; it's also pictures of the past,' adds Chapman. 'It is an attack on photojournalism.' (Read more in this week's printed issue of BJP)" - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html