Back when Vivian was photographing did she have to ask each person for permission, or is there some legal rule about that today that didn't exist then?
She did not have to ask for permission and it's the same today. There's no expectation of privacy when in public, it's a First Amendment right. You can use the photos for artistic expression--books, gallery show, sale of prints. The only thing you can't do is use it in an advertisement without a release.
@@kennethwajda Thanks for your response and another great video! You had mentioned you'd ask permission to your subjects and is that because you always want the freedom to use your photos in advertising? So the Amendment is designed such that when you are in public you can't expect privacy therefore someone like a street photographer can take any photos they wish? Why in videos do they fuzz out so often people who happened to get in the picture? You have many thousands of subscribers and understand if you can't answer. Thanks for taking the time with me!
@@mwj5368 i've been making street portraits this summer and for those I do ask for permission as I'm approaching them and posing them. But candid street photography doesn't need permission or releases. Now say you made a book of your street photography work, that is all perfectly legal and fair to do. And then you took a picture of the cover of the book and put it in an advertisement to sell the book, that photo of the book with the photo on the cover should be released because you have now used the photo in an advertisement. What videos do to blur out people may be because they are being used in some commercial sense. For art and expression and photographing publicly, and this is for the US, this may not apply everywhere around the world, it's why we have photo books of street photography because there's no way you could get releases of all of the people that are in all of the photographs.
@@kennethwajda Hi Thank you! So very nice to give first hand information from an experienced professional. What happened to all of the photos Vivian took that are yet to be developed? Did John Maloof who bought the photos come up against a legal battle from that bogus lawyer who seems so concerned about any of Vivian's relatives even when John tried hard to find any living relatives and didn't? I understand if you don't have time to answer. I was just mesmerized by her photography and really disappointed to listen to that lawyer in his strange video.
I just ordered the book over Amazon. I enjoyed this week’s photo chat and continue to enjoy shooting with my Rolleiflex 2.8a
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Back when Vivian was photographing did she have to ask each person for permission, or is there some legal rule about that today that didn't exist then?
She did not have to ask for permission and it's the same today. There's no expectation of privacy when in public, it's a First Amendment right. You can use the photos for artistic expression--books, gallery show, sale of prints. The only thing you can't do is use it in an advertisement without a release.
@@kennethwajda Thanks for your response and another great video! You had mentioned you'd ask permission to your subjects and is that because you always want the freedom to use your photos in advertising? So the Amendment is designed such that when you are in public you can't expect privacy therefore someone like a street photographer can take any photos they wish? Why in videos do they fuzz out so often people who happened to get in the picture? You have many thousands of subscribers and understand if you can't answer. Thanks for taking the time with me!
@@mwj5368 i've been making street portraits this summer and for those I do ask for permission as I'm approaching them and posing them. But candid street photography doesn't need permission or releases.
Now say you made a book of your street photography work, that is all perfectly legal and fair to do. And then you took a picture of the cover of the book and put it in an advertisement to sell the book, that photo of the book with the photo on the cover should be released because you have now used the photo in an advertisement.
What videos do to blur out people may be because they are being used in some commercial sense.
For art and expression and photographing publicly, and this is for the US, this may not apply everywhere around the world, it's why we have photo books of street photography because there's no way you could get releases of all of the people that are in all of the photographs.
@@kennethwajda Hi Thank you! So very nice to give first hand information from an experienced professional. What happened to all of the photos Vivian took that are yet to be developed? Did John Maloof who bought the photos come up against a legal battle from that bogus lawyer who seems so concerned about any of Vivian's relatives even when John tried hard to find any living relatives and didn't? I understand if you don't have time to answer. I was just mesmerized by her photography and really disappointed to listen to that lawyer in his strange video.
It seems like the work is still being exhibited. I just saw a show at Fotografiska in NYC.