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:
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
Parker Brown
4/5/2018 12:29:02 pm
I do think that Vivian Maier’s works should be displayed to the public even though she had died. She was a great artist, so she deserves the publicity for her great works. I think she didn’t tell anyone about the photos because she didn’t want to bring any attention to herself. Now that she is gone she won’t have to deal with the fame, so I think she would want them displayed now. It wouldn’t feel right if so many great photographs were just locked away, never to be seen.
Annie Mosis
4/5/2018 12:29:30 pm
I do believe that Vivian Maier's talented work should be shown to the public after her death. Even if she kept her work to herself while she lived and may have not wanted to show people her work, I believe her work should be shown to an audience due to her well taken photos. Even though she is not living today, people should be able to see the photos she took around Chicago. Even if we did know her wish to keep her art secret, we do not truly know if that's what she truly wished. In my opinion, her images should be shown due to not knowing of Vivians true intentions with her images.
Payton Down
4/5/2018 12:30:31 pm
I think that Vivian Maier took her pictures to express herself and keep the memories for herself. Although she didn't want to share the photos with anyone maybe she thought she would be judged and ridiculed for trying to express herself as a nanny. Of course in some sense does the feelings of the photographer had but there is no way to guarantee that no one will show them after her death. Especially when all of the work she did was amazing.
Elizabeth Wray
4/5/2018 12:30:52 pm
When Vivian Maier died, her work had not been showed to the public. After her death, her work was discovered by John Maloof. In my opinion, John Maloof should be credited with her work, after all, first come first serve. Maloof found the photographs and bought the negatives, so he should be credited by them. In my offense, Her first cousin should not get the photographs because he did not even know Maier. Although Maloof didn't either, he is the one who originally found the negatives.
Matthew Weiss
4/5/2018 12:33:07 pm
The article discusses who should hold the rights to the works of Vivian Maier. In the end, I believe that John Maloof should hold the rights to her work, despite Vivian having relatives. John Maloof had put so much into researching Vivian Maier, and discovering who she was, that it doesn’t make sense that a distant family member should be given the profits of John Maloof’s discovery of Vivian Maier’s work.
Brandon Collins
4/5/2018 12:33:24 pm
Her work should be shown to the public after her death. In a way its to recognize her talents and to respect. She kept it secret because she seemed to not want the attention but she also wanted to show people her work. Technically her wishes do matter but she didn't write a will saying not to show her photos. In Vivian Maier’s case her wishes don't matter because they don’t exist.
Jordan Bell
4/5/2018 12:34:12 pm
Vivian Maier would have wanted her work to be shown after death. Maier took over 100,000 photos, at that high of a number it would have been crazy if she had not wanted at least one of those photos to be seen. Everybody who encountered her said that she was very private, mysterious and strange person. The main reason why I believe that Vivian Maier wanted her work to be seen was because she had reached out to a printing store in France and asked the owner to print her work onto postcards.
boyd meltzer
4/5/2018 12:35:40 pm
This article is written about the legal battle concerning the previously unknown street photographer Vivian Maier. A lawsuit was filed by a lawyer and former commercial photographer named David C. Deal. He is suing John Maloof, who bought her negatives and is now selling them and exhibiting them for profit. He aims to give the rights to the photos to a man named Francis Baille, a distant relative who is one of the only surviving relatives of Maier.
Claire Williams
4/5/2018 12:35:55 pm
Although Vivian Maier died before her work could be shown to the world, I think it is still very important to showcase this great photography. Some people argue that she did not want it to be shown. Of course I think that an artist’s wishes matter after they pass. However, we have no written note from her specifically saying that she didn’t want her work out there. Maybe she was just scared or didn’t have the right platform to put it out as her work.
Kylie Bruehler
4/5/2018 08:13:32 pm
Vivian Maier had never explicitly stated if she wanted for her art to be seen by anyone. During the time that she was alive, Vivian Maier never showed her photography to anyone and kept her gift of photography a complete secret. There is no doubt that Vivian had a gift and this can be seen through her many incredible photographs, and this is why her choice to keep quiet about her art comes as such a surprise. The main point of an artist creating art is for it to be displayed or viewed, yet Vivian Maier wanted to be a secret.
Lucas Prado
4/6/2018 10:53:42 am
Since some of the photos have already been shown to the public, I think that it would only be fair to the public that they get to see the rest of the photos. If John trademarked the photos, then would be possible that he gives the rest of the photos to galleries. However, if the lawyer won, it would be possible to have the photos given to the relative to keep. If they were given to the closest relative, I would think that they wouldn’t be shown. Either way they would most likely be shown to the public in some aspect either way, but it's possible that the world would only get a little taste of her photos.
Natalia Orquin
4/6/2018 10:56:12 am
I believe that Miss Maier wanted her work to be noticed and admired. However, she herself not be in the spotlight. After watching the documentary, I realized that she was someone who didn’t want to be noticed. She always changed her name, never really gave anyone too much detail about her life, and hid away the photographs during her lifetime. She was a nanny for numerous kids throughout her life yet she gave out details about herself.
gilly
4/16/2018 09:00:27 am
After Vivian Meyer’s death her work was discovered. I believe Vivian Maier’s work should be shown to the public because she was a great photographer and had a way with people and capturing life in her images , that many viewers of her work found interesting. She is passed away so it's a shame to not let people see the beauty she was able to capture. Comments are closed.
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