Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> At 04:49 PM 9/6/2009, you wrote: >> What ever issues she may be going through the validity of her body of work >> is not one of them. >> >> Mark William Rabiner > > Maybe she's getting desperate, but claiming another photographer's > work as her own does not add to the validity of her work. > > Tina > > Tina Manley > www.tinamanley.com > > Yes but these are images which any grade school kid recognizes as digital composites; consisting of models in front of backgrounds. In this case the backgrounds appear to be photographic . A model in front of backdrops. The element in question being the backdrop. The main element, the model, was certainly done by her. The history of photographs done in front of supplied backdrops goes back to day one. And nobody cares who did the backdrop. In this case the backdrop was not painted but photographic. Not that these distinctions can be made with assured clarity with such work. It was not so cool for this kind of thing to have slipped by. But its not the end of the world. Its not her claiming "other peoples photographs are her own". This I find frankly obvious and the barrage of negativity aimed at this photographer over more than a decade on this list makes me wonder. Mark William Rabiner