[Leica] A new use for jpegs

[ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)]

what would happen if a picture owner sued him?

is his a "fair use"?

Has anyone contested one of these "artists"?

ric


On May 9, 2009, at 8:20 PM, Tina Manley wrote:

> At 06:54 PM 5/9/2009, you wrote:
>> Thinking of Tina. ;-)
>> http://www.photoeye.com/bookstore/mshowdetailsbycat.cfm?catalog=dq179
>> --
>> Phil Swango
>
> From a review:
>
> "Thomas Ruff, a leader of the celebrated D?sseldorf school of  
> photography, has not taken a picture in nearly four years. In place  
> of the camera, he?s turned to the computer; in lieu of the world, he  
> has the World Wide Web.  His current show at the David Zwirner  
> gallery marks his second exhibit using a series of JPEGs the  
> reigning digital compression standard mostly culled from the  
> Internet and blown up to monumental proportions.  ....Today, there  
> is nary an image that cannot be had for the price of a mouse click.  
> Ruff?s JPEGs challenge the cozy yet disquieting proximity of photos,  
> a propinquity that can dissolve the very possibility of geographic,  
> temporal or even psychic distance. Ruff, however, isn?t providing  
> some Archimedean point from which to view the world objectively, for  
> the distance he describes is lodged in the very codes of  
> contemporary vision."
>
> So he's stealing other photographers jpegs off the web and blowing  
> them up to monumental sizes.  And getting rave reviews.
>
> Boo.  Hiss.  :-(
>
> Tina
>
> Tina Manley
> www.tinamanley.com
>
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