Showing posts with label appropriation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label appropriation. Show all posts

Saturday, September 15, 2012

The REMIX Culture Panel Discussion on Vimeo

Via photo eye Blog

The REMIX Culture Panel Discussion on Vimeo



We are happy to share the video of the final part of our three part summer Art Law Lecture Series -- The REMIX Culture: Appropriation Art and Fair Use in the Digital Age. Led by moderator Talia V. Kosh of New Mexico Lawyers for the Arts, panelists David L. Dirks, Sid Monroe, Casey Bock, Craig Anderson and Benjamin Allison discussed the high profile Cariou v. Prince appropriation case and the importance of appropriation and forms of visual referencing in our culture.


The REMIX Culture: Appropriation Art and Fair Use in the Digital Age

Taking place on August 15th, the panel discussion was co-sponsored by photo-eye and New Mexico Lawyers for the Arts. Our thanks to all those who participated.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Art Law: Appropriation Art and Fair Use in the Digital Age



Via Photo Eye

Summer Lecture Series

PART THREE -
The REMIX Culture: Appropriation Art and Fair Use in the Digital Age
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 6:30-8:00 pm
photo-eye Gallery is located at 376-A Garcia Street, Santa Fe, NM 87501
photo-eye is pleased to invite you to the third in our Summer Lecture Series in collaboration with New Mexico Lawyers for the Arts, a nonprofit dedicated to providing artists and arts organizations with pro bono legal assistances and educational programming.

As issues of appropriation and remixing increasingly flood our culture, copyright infringement lawsuits are on the rise. In the final part of our Art Law series, a range of experts from across the legal, business and creative realms of art (an attorney, a dealer, an arts consultant and an appropriation artist), will discuss the creative methods and ideas associated with appropriation in art today.

Using the facts from the high profile Cariou vs Prince appropriation case, the panel will discuss the importance of appropriation and forms of visual referencing in our culture, the differences between transformative works and infringement and whether current copyright laws provide sufficient protection while preserving an artist's freedom to reference the work of others.

We hope you can join us this Wednesday evening. This event are free and open to the public on a first come, first served basis.

Read Melanie McWhorter's blog post on the lecture series on photo-eye Blog.

Watch the video of our first lecture Protecting your Rights as a Photographer by Efrain Padro here.

For more information contact Anne Kelly at 505-988-5159 x121 or anne@photoeye.com or Melanie McWhorter at 505-988-5159 x112 or melanie@photoeye.com

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Appropriation Art and Fair Use in the Digital Age



Via Photo Eye



The REMIX Culture: Appropriation Art and Fair Use in the Digital Age

A  PANEL DISCUSSION
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
6:30-8p.m at Photo Eye Gallery
376 Garcia Street Santa Fe, NM
(505) 988 -5152

photo-eye Gallery is pleased to announce part three of our Summer Lecture Series presented in collaboration with New Mexico Lawyers for the Arts, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing artists and arts organizations with pro bono legal assistances and educational programming.

As issues of appropriation and remixing increasingly flood our culture, copyright infringement lawsuits are on the rise. In the final part of our Art Law series, a range of experts from across the legal, business and creative realms of art (an attorney, a dealer, an arts consultant and an appropriation artist), will discuss the creative methods and ideas associated with appropriation in art today.

Using the facts from the high profile Cariou vs Prince appropriation case, the panel will discuss the importance of appropriation and forms of visual referencing in our culture, the differences between transformative works and infringement and whether current copyright laws provide sufficient protection while preserving an artist's freedom to reference the work of others.

All events are free and open to the public on a first come, first serve basis.



Panelists:

Benjamin Allison: a copyright and trademark lawyer at Sutin Thayer & Browne PC in Santa Fe, where his practice also includes commercial and art litigation. He has practiced law in New York City and clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Paul J. Kelly Jr. He teaches Art Law at Santa Fe Community College.

Craig Anderson: Works as an independent curator and art and museum advisor. He served as the Executive Director and Curator at Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe from 2010 to 2012. He has been watching closely the unfolding Prince v. Cariou case closely.

Sid Monroe: Sidney Monroe has been engaged in the fine-art and photography field for over 30 years. Previous to establishing Monroe Gallery of Photography with is wife and business partner Michelle, he was the Gallery Director for the flagship New York location of a leading national art gallery organization, and later a founding partner of an leading gallery of photography in New York City, SoHo Triad Fine Arts. His comments on photography have been published in numerous magazines and newspapers, and he has appeared on television programs throughout the world in conjunction with exhibitions and photography sales.

Monroe Gallery specializes in 20th and 21st Century photojournalist imagery. The gallery also represents a select group of contemporary and emerging photographers and exhibits nationally at prestigious Photography Fairs. Monroe Gallery was the recipient of the 2010 Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Excellence in Photojournalism.

Casey Bock: Casey is a student and an artist. Casey received her Bachelor of Arts from University of New Mexico in Communication/Media Studies. She is Vice President of AAF Lobo Edge Advertising, UNM Art Student and artist. She currently works at UNM as an administrative assistance and at Sandia Prep as a marketing intern. Casey has also been following trends in appropriation art and has created appropriated works for school projects.

Saturday, May 21, 2011

The Art Market: Copyright or Wrong?

Via The Financial Times

By Georgina Adam
Published: May 20 2011 22:23


Copyright infringement is a hot issue today with Britain poised for a radical shake-up of its law on the subject. In the art market – and in the law courts – it is already squarely on the agenda as more artists incorporate “appropriation” (read: copying) into their practice. Photographers, in particular, are protesting and, in a recent high-profile case, both Richard Prince (king of appropriation) and his gallery Gagosian were found guilty of violating photographer Patrick Cariou’s rights. Prince made collages using Cariou’s images of Jamaican Rastafarians but barely changed them. An appeal is pending.

Matters went the other way in another case just settled. The European court in The Hague has thrown out a suit brought by the French luxury goods group LVMH against Nadia Plesner, a Dutch art student. In her painting “Darfurnica”, Plesner showed a starving African child clutching a swanky Louis Vuitton “Audra” handbag. Inspired by Picasso’s “Guernica”, the work is designed to draw attention to the conflict in Darfur and western indifference to it. It was put on sale in a Danish gallery for €67,000.

Vuitton accused Plesner of copyright infringement and won the initial case against her in January. She was fined almost €500,000 for continuing to display the painting. Vuitton had previously stopped Plesner showing a similar image on T-shirts and posters. But this time the artist fought back and the court has reversed the decision, ruling that the artist’s freedom of expression outweighed the importance of Vuitton’s protection of property. Plesner doesn’t have to pay the fine, the picture can be exhibited publicly and Vuitton has to pay part of her costs. “We [artists] have won back our freedom to make reference to the modern society we live in,” said Plesner. Her painting is currently on display at the small Herning Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark. Because of the increased public interest, the show has been extended to June 19.

Related: APPROPRIATION: PHOTOGRAPHY, ART, AND "STEALING"

Thursday, March 24, 2011

APPROPRIATION: PHOTOGRAPHY, ART, AND "STEALING"

Richard Prince, Canal Zone, 2008

Patrick Cariou photographs of Jamaican rastafarians altered and exhibited without consent by Richard Prince. Photograph: Canal Zone




Yesterday the Guardian newspaper had an extensive article about the recent US Federal Judge's ruling against Gagosian gallery and artist Richard Prince for unfair use of 'appropriated' Patrick Cariou rastafarian images. "A New York federal court has ruled that Prince and his gallery infringed Cariou's copyright when he produced a series of works in a 2008 show using 35 pictures from the book Yes, Rasta, published by Cariou in 2000, "in their entirety, or nearly so". The ruling, which may lead to an appeal, stands to cost Prince and the Gagosian, one of the world's leading contemporary galleries, with outlets in London and New York, potentially huge sums. Eight of the works from the exhibition, which was entitled Canal Zone, have together sold for more than $10m (£6m). Seven others have been exchanged for other works of art for between $6m and $8m."
 
Prince's "Cowboy" became the most expensive photograph ever to sell at auction when New York dealer Stellan Holm bought it at Christie’s in November 2005 for $1,248,000. Later, “Marlboro Man" (Untitled, Cowboy), set a record for a photograph when it sold for $3,401,000 at Sotheby’s in New York in 2007.

As we reported on our blog after the Fall auctions, Prince’s “Cowboy” series consisted of old Marlboro cigarette print ads that he re-photographed. And the Marlboro man was based on a LIFE magazine cover of a photograph by Leonard McCombe of a real cowboy.




Similarly, the $63.36 million realized at Phillips, de Pury by Andy Warhol's “Men in Her Life?” was done in silk-screen technique: the dark black and white picture endlessly repeats a photographic image published in LIFE magazine on April 13, 1962.




In the context of the broader art market, Photography's impact, relevance, influence, and relationship to the broader fine art field is still in its infancy. Generally, the prices for the "masters" of photography are a fraction of the prices for the masters of art. But what to think when "art" sells for millions of dollars that is directly "appropriated" from photographs? We have assembled a few relevant posts, and welcome your comments.

Renowned photojournalist Bill Eppridge: When artists appropriate the work of others


"From European collagists in the early 1900s to contemporary installation artists who cull elements from the garbage bin and the Internet, the recycling of materials and ideas has been a fertile practice in modern and contemporary art. Cubist collage, montage, Pop Art, Assemblage, and Appropriation fractured pictorial conventions and led to the upheaval of aesthetic systems of order. Photography has played a catalytic role in this revolution." -- Henry Art Gallery

Jonathon Delacour: Appropriation Art and Walker Evans: Appropriation Art  appears to be the topic du jour


Peta Pixel: Photo Theft Versus Conceptual Art

Richard Prince’s Views on Copyright



Riddle time…who is the artist that produced this image? Appropriation in Photography: II. Whose Is It, Anyway?






 
Related: Thoughts on the Record Fall Auctions