Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/07/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alastair, Indeed, a sad state of affairs. My understanding is that in a public arena one can photograph people as they are. The resulting photographs can be shown in the context of "art" providing they are not derogatory. And in my book, providing you do not make money off of the print. Salgado's images can seel for 10K a pop. I doubt the subject ever recieves anything for the image. Same goes for National Geographic. There are no model release forms there either. Eric On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Alastair Firkin <afirkin@afirkin.com> wrote: > I must make a quick comment. Leica are calling for MASTER IMAGES via the > LFI. They want M8 DLUX CLUX images only, to "prove" how good these digital > marvels are I suppose. When you read the fine print, you have to have > model releases for anyone in the images: Well perhaps the photography the > M was good for is now no longer viable. I can't imagine traveling in India > and having to get someone to sign a release. > > I'm going to Paris in September for 3 weeks: one of my aims is to make > some street images, but in France the rules are even stricter I believe. > Certainly 60% of HCB's work would not pass the Leica Master image > requirements. For children you would have to track down the legal > guardians. It seems a bit depressing to use the M to take only animals, > vegetables and minerals, and I suppose body parts which cannot be > identified. > > Cheers > > Alastair > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- Eric W.A. Boehm, PhD Assistant Professor, Microbiology Department of Biological Sciences Kean University, 1000 Morris Ave. Union, NJ 07083 908-737-3654 eboehm@kean.edu Research Website: http://www.eboehm.com/ Photography Website: http://www.streetphotographyisrael.com/