Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/06/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, as usual, has the correct answer. Someone (Occam?) said that the simplest solution is the best. Or something like that. Ken On 6/20/2015 7:29 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > Bob Baron's reply: > Subject: Re: [Leica] How would you respond? > >>>>>>>>>> "I thought you would like to know some idiot is sending out >>>>>>>>>> libelous and > slanderous emails over your signature. You'd better alert your lawyer > because I've alerted mine." <<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > Hi Bob, > A perfectly legal response without putting your own foot in "DEEP DO-DOO!" > > My own wasn't quite so kindly! As it required the use of a "Very well made > baseball bat and knees!" Quietly in the dark alley behind the museum > building!" Oh yeah at midnight! > > Dr. ted :-) > > ============================================================= >> From the "Most outrageous letter to a photographer from a museum ever?" >> files. >> >> Documentary photographer Chris Arnade ( >> http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-arnade-photos-of-bronx-addicts-2013-12) >> found out today that one of his photographs is being included (without his >> consent) in the exhibit ??Altered Images: 150 Years of Posed and >> Manipulated Documentary Photography? at the Bronx Documentary Center. They >> let him know by sending him this email which I?m pretty sure is quite >> possibly the most outrageous unsolicited letter ever sent to an artist >> from >> a museum (this all Via Chris Arnade?s tumblr, arnade.tumblr.com) -- how >> would you react? >> >> >> >> Chris >> >> Apologies for the late email, we are putting together a show on short >> notice and just finalizing the lineup. >> >> On Saturday we will open up our Altered Images exhibition, which examines >> posed, faked or manipulated documentary photography. A number of people >> had >> suggested we include your work of substance abusers and sex workers. We >> have reviewed your work. You qualify on a number of levels and will be >> included. >> >> You admit to paying your subjects, which violates one of the most closely >> held tenets of documentary photography. Paying to photograph any person, >> particularly one dependent upon drugs, and even driving them to buy drugs, >> as you say you have done, is a clear breach of ethics and standards. >> >> I see that you say claim, in interviews, an exemption from journalistic >> and documentary standards by saying you are not a journalist. Yet you >> publish your photos in the Guardian, one of the world?s most prestigious >> media outlets. Ethical guidelines apply. >> >> A key guideline of the National Press Photographers Assn reads: ?Treat all >> subjects with respect and dignity. Give special consideration to >> vulnerable >> subjects.? >> >> Your photos of sex workers, some addicted to drugs, some with mental >> health issues and/or severely emotionally abused, exposing their breasts >> or >> bent naked over a bed, are a breach of this standard. The fact that you >> also publish these photos on Flickr, to be gawked at by thousands, raises >> further ethical issues too numerous to address here. >> >> Briefly, people who are paid by you, under the influence of drugs or >> mentally impaired (and in many cases have little understanding of The >> Guardian or Flickr), clearly do not have the ability to give informed >> consent to their photos being used as you have done. >> >> We will include a caption under your photo outlining these ethical >> breaches. If you so choose, you can send us up to two paragraphs in >> response and we will give it equal weight next to our caption. >> >> I?m ccing our lawyer, Don Dunn, in case you have any legal issues you >> choose to raise. >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone plz excuse the typoss keyb0ard is reaLly small. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > --- > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information