Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mark Rabiner wrote: >> I've been interested in this topic for awhile. Over at thomashawk.com >> it's a >> recurring topic. I know many museums, including our own Denver Art >> Museum has >> a no flash policy on their collection and NO photography whatsoever on >> visiting exhibitions. What I guess i don't understand is why? I know the >> simple answer is that the museum or artist loaning the museum has forbade >> it >> but I would like to know why. Frankly it's amazing that some of the >> modern >> art museums are the worst in this regard. Half the stuff is crap anyway >> and >> they should only be so flattered that someone would actually wanna take a >> picture. I mean really - a broom, a chair and a toilet seat cover isn't >> too >> hard to recreate without a photo - are they really that worried that >> someone >> is going to pass it off as their own. Any one on the list with some >> deeper >> insight. >> >> ernie >> >> >> > Because they think a flash will fade it. If done hundreds of times a day. > And I bet that's a myth. > Or at least never been proven. > > The guards at the MET* in NY have given up as they know the people have no > clue nor care as to how to turn off their flash. > They aure using flash to photograph forewords and the empire state > building; > The skyline from across the Hudson river. > > * The Metropolitan Museum of Art on 5th ave NY. > > Mark William Rabiner > MOMA no problem: http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/album_001/L8664969.JPG.html Guggenheim verboten (hence the off-kilter angle of the grab shot--my family is exactly opposite on the other side): http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/shino/album_001/L1020991.JPG.html -rei