For today's critical analysis, you will read an article about photographer Vivian Maier's work and the controversy surrounding who holds the copyright to reproduce, exhibit, and profit from her work. You will then respond to the article here. Here is the link to the New York Times article: www.nytimes.com/2014/09/06/arts/design/a-legal-battle-over-vivian-maiers-work.html Write a 4 paragraph response to the article above, giving your opinion on what you feel should happen to Vivian Maier's photographs. Consider these questions as you write:
Be sure to post your response as a comment to the correct class period blog post. Your analyses will be graded on the following criteria:
If you do not finish in class, you must complete this for homework before class on Friday, 4/6/18! If you are interested in reading more about the Vivian Maier case, here is a recent article about the settlement of Maier's estate: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-vivian-maier-estate-court-settlement-met-20160510-story.html
Catherine Clausewitz
4/5/2018 09:43:03 am
4/5/2018 09:53:41 am
I do think that Vivian Maier’s works should be displayed to the public after her death even though she wished them not to be. I personally feel that art can only truly be great if it is viewed by the general public. To have such fascinating and brilliant works of art locked away to appease the artist who is no longer with us in my opinion is not something that should be done. Maier’s works won’t be able to be acknowledged as truly great works if nobody sees them. Without having them displayed to the public, her work would never receive attention and get any publicity, they’d just be locked away for years upon end.
Melody Umsted
4/5/2018 04:49:48 pm
I think that the work should be shown to the public, even after her death. She may not have wanted that when she was alive, but she did consider it for a time. I think that she wanted people to find her film and print them after she died. Vivian did not like attention, and if she showed her work during her lifetime she would have become very famous. This fame would probably hurt her, considering her mental state. Thus, she left them to be printed after she died so people could see her art and not bother her personally.
Jessica Mims
4/5/2018 05:30:32 pm
Vivian Maier lived her life making photographs without others knowing. It is really unfortunate because she was a very talented photographer. After she died, John Maloof discovered her works. Everyone, including Maloof, did not know anything about Maier. She very few records and information about her, almost as if she lived in secret. Since she had very little documentation, Maloof wanted to figure out more about her, so he began researching.
Julieta Vazquez Martinez
4/5/2018 06:14:04 pm
I think that her work should be shown. I don't think that she didn't want her work to be shown, otherwise why would she contact the printer in that little French town? In that letter she recognises herself as a good photographer and she did wanted to print them. Apart from debating if she did wanted to show them or not, these are simply too good not to be shown. These are beautifully taken pictures (not just coming from a student that had criticized pictures for only a little bit more than a school semester, but also from professional critics) that show not only a story by itself but also contributes to the historic data that we have from the time.
Kaitlyn Evans
4/5/2018 08:01:47 pm
I do agree that her artwork should be shown because it has made her a very successful woman. Her artwork was stunning and the places that would hold her artwork always had lines of people waiting to see all day long. Her photos were taken back a while ago so people who were photographed by her would go see themselves 10 or more years later which made people bring up memories and share them with their loved ones. Families also got to see their grandparents or cousins up in a famous museum which brought families closer together.
Adriana Vazquez
4/5/2018 08:42:33 pm
Andi Feik
4/6/2018 08:51:56 am
I believe that Vivian Maier did not really want her work to be shown to the public. Although, I think that John Malouf finding these photograph is a good thing. I think that if she wanted her work to be exposed she would have liked it to be shown after she passed away. In the documentary, it says that she would not have liked the attention. I think that that is true. 4/7/2018 10:19:07 pm
I think Vivian Maier’s work should be shown to the public after death. The reason why I think her work should be shown is because she was planning to showcase her photos in a little town in France. This also explains why she was so private because she didn’t want anyone to see her photos until she released them. Vivian didn’t take the pictures because she wanted to keep them but she wanted to show her work to the public. Evidence of this can be shown in her storage container where the negatives haven’t been converted to photos yet.
chase Blackwell
5/8/2018 07:27:59 am
Artists have long struggled with copyright laws, and Vivian maier's is no exception. The question of how ownership is determined is something that still troubles artists today. For example, in the medium of tattoos, there's a large argument over who owns the art. The artist who designs it, or the person who it’s created upon. This arises as athletes, in particular, are being moved into being characters in video games. The game companies want to create accurate models of the players, but inevitably can’t do that without coping the intellectual property of the tattoo artists. Comments are closed.
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