Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/04

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Subject: [Leica] photography in art museums
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:48:48 -0600
References: <9F07836ED74F1C42AA69DFBAF8A1E2F1378508767F@MBX1.asc.local> <20100104155849.GA19094@ssx-book.local>

All the more humorous
because you can have a 3.3 meg jpg
of Mona Lisa
at wikipedia

<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Mona_Lisa.jpg>

Probably with better lighting and color

;~)

drop the file in your camera and tell your friends you were there

;~)

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On Jan 4, 2010, at 9:58 AM, Tim Gray wrote:

> On Mon  4, Jan'10 at  9:06 AM -0500, Kyle Cassidy wrote:
>> This is indeed because of copyright. The Louvre, for example,  
>> cannot copyright the Mona Lisa, it's in the public domain, but  
>> they CAN copyright their reproductions of it and control access to  
>> the original making sure that nobody else can make reproductions  
>> of it.
>
> Funny example.  The last time I was there, there were more people  
> taking pictures of the Mona Lisa than actually looking at it.
>
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/tgray1/3018923813/in/ 
> set-72157607905705648/>
>
> I did take quite a number of pictures there and was not hassled at  
> all.  I have been asked to stop taking photos in the Philadelphia  
> Museum of Art though.  Museums can be an interesting place to take  
> photos of people.
>
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In reply to: Message from kcassidy at asc.upenn.edu (Kyle Cassidy) ([Leica] photography in art museums)
Message from tgray at 125px.com (Tim Gray) ([Leica] photography in art museums)