[Leica] A modern website

[bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)]

Hi, Arche - First, it's about 115, not 220 - and I'll be editing it down to
about 80 images - in fact I've got a former Magnum editor doing an edit on
it for me. As to the model release - the subway is a public place, and as
such there is no legal expectation of privacy. I can shoot, I can display, I
can publish. What I can't do is sell the images for commercial purposes such
as advertising. And I can't use them for editorial or news purposes that
don't accurately convey the situation I photographed. But I can do a book of
them without releases. Can you imagine if Gary Winnogrand had had to get
releases for the 10s of thousands of images he shot on the street? :-)


On 4/4/06 7:25 PM, "Arche, Harvey" <Harvey.Arche@jp2hs.org> wrote:

> B.D.-
> The website looks great, and plays perfectly in the Tiger version of 
> Safari. I
> didn't look at everything, but did play the 'T' shots through, which 
> actually
> kind of pissed me off. Earlier today I had spent about 30 minutes during 
> lunch
> at work going through that gallery at the LUG site, but couldn't get to 
> all of
> it. Then I go home and find this slick slideshow.
> Again, I think the 'T' scenes is a great ongoing project, very powerful. I
> hope I don't offend by saying it eventually will need to be distilled 
> (read:
> ruthlessly edited) to about a third its current size. What's it at now, 211
> images? Make that 210- you gotta ditch that codger at the end :-)
> I'm looking forward to going through the rest of the site.
> Arche
> PS- Out of curiousity, what are the legal vulnerabilities of posting 
> people's
> likenesses to the web without a model release? Are you safe as long as no
> profit is involved? I do it because I presume that the audience is so 
> narrow
> (lug list) that no one who is depicted (or their lawyer) will ever 
> encounter
> the images.
> 
> 
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