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Asher Kelman

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Mark,

What an interesting but unsettling subject! Sure this catches out attention as surrealistic art. However, it's based on theft of other folks work.

The appropriation artist's claim a surfeit of images makes ownership non-functional and the creating of new captures unnecessary. So they feel free to take copyrighted work and change it for themselves or just sign it as is with no other alterations and now copyright it as their own!

To me it's rude at a minimum. Here, the erasure of parts of someone else's art is audacious but but morally wrong when the new work doesn't have to pay any licensing fee for use of the original.

Working like that is really banditry!

Asher
 

Mark Hampton

New member
Americains-Enterrement.jpg



SOURCE: Enterrement


Mark,

What an interesting but unsettling subject! Sure this catches out attention as surrealistic art. However, it's based on theft of other folks work.

The appropriation artist's claim a surfeit of images makes ownership non-functional and the creating of new captures unnecessary. So they feel free to take copyrighted work and change it for themselves or just sign it as is with no other alterations and now copyright it as their own!

To me it's rude at a minimum. Here, the erasure of parts of someone else's art is audacious but but morally wrong when the new work doesn't have to pay any licensing fee for use of the original.

Working like that is really banditry!

Asher

Asher,

I find it interesting and kind of agree with this way of working. If i had an idea that I wanted to explore and though that utilising someone else work would help me achieve what I wanted then I would do it.

The issue that is @ the heart of the article for me is - images made in the main by the establishment artist / photographers - tend towards the conservative / modernist ideology and therefore are fair game - because that ideology is in its self immoral and using the images from it can critique the ideology.

just a thought
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Asher,

I find it interesting and kind of agree with this way of working. If i had an idea that I wanted to explore and though that utilising someone else work would help me achieve what I wanted then I would do it.

The issue that is @ the heart of the article for me is - images made in the main by the establishment artist / photographers - tend towards the conservative / modernist ideology and therefore are fair game - because that ideology is in its self immoral and using the images from it can critique the ideology.

just a thought

Mark,

That's a simple but enlightening line of thought!

Wow, appropriation art is now noble!!!

Your assertions do make some sense. What you're proposing are the kind of almost unlimited rights to photograph public figures in the USA, even when they so, "Stop!". After all, they have placed themselves, out in the open, "above everyone else", for public scrutiny. These are the politicians, "personalities" or other famous folk in the limelight. The doctrine assumes that all, (willingly or unwillingly), forfeited rights to privacy.

So, there's a precedent for that way of thinking. Then Mishka, by self-publishing, is making some social-political or editorial comment, one might claim.

However, when Prince usurps someone else's art and merely signs it as a new work of art, pegging megabucks, that seems preposterous. But then, what about photographing a sunset and claiming it as one's own art? Isn't that preposterous too?

Asher
 

Mark Hampton

New member
Mark,

That's a simple but enlightening line of thought!

Wow, appropriation art is now noble!!!

Your assertions do make some sense. What you're proposing are the kind of almost unlimited rights to photograph public figures in the USA, even when they so, "Stop!". After all, they have placed themselves, out in the open, "above everyone else", for public scrutiny. These are the politicians, "personalities" or other famous folk in the limelight. The doctrine assumes that all, (willingly or unwillingly), forfeited rights to privacy.

So, there's a precedent for that way of thinking. Then Mishka, by self-publishing, is making some social-political or editorial comment, one might claim.

However, when Prince usurps someone else's art and merely signs it as a new work of art, pegging megabucks, that seems preposterous. But then, what about photographing a sunset and claiming it as one's own art? Isn't that preposterous too?

Asher

Asher,

well - i guess if you want to critique prince - deconstruct his work and make it your own - then sell it on or even give it away.

Mishka also sees the humour and trouble making in this whole issue.

The art market is a business that tends to get critiqued by artists - whose work then gets consumed by the market and sold.

ah the beauty of it all.
 

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
it's based on theft of other folks work.

There is a reason why lawyers use a different word for theft and for copyright infringement. And that subtle difference is what we should consider to understand these works. I think that part of the message is indeed that copyright, in its current form, has evolved into a legal construction limiting creation. Which is exactly the opposite of what it was created for.
 

Tom dinning

Registrant*
How delightful an approach. I would like to think Mishka is taking the piss out of a few of us as well as finding a way to comment on photography through photographs, irrespective of his methods or source. Theoretical interpretive photographs are a much neglects genre and it takes a brave person to go down that path because of the sensitivity of the photographer to their own. These images are likely to generate more comment about the ethics of the photographer than the photograph itself. I would hope that is part of Mishka's purpose, along with finding a very unusual and controversial way of doing it.
I wonder what those people are thinking who know nothing about the origin of the photos?
Go Mishka!
Cheers
Tom
 

Mark Hampton

New member
I wonder what those people are thinking who know nothing about the origin of the photos?
Go Mishka!
Cheers
Tom

that is a hard question man.... you could test it of course... print oot the two books and show people the images and record their reactions...... you would need a control off course !

also video it as a performance piece - asher can write a statement ... i went to GSA - fukk we could have a turner prize in a year - we need a title.......
 

Tom dinning

Registrant*
that is a hard question man.... you could test it of course... print oot the two books and show people the images and record their reactions...... you would need a control off course !

also video it as a performance piece - asher can write a statement ... i went to GSA - fukk we could have a turner prize in a year - we need a title.......

Geez, Mark, go lay down. I just asked the question. I didn't expect a Project. On second thought, do you think we could get a grant for it? I bags you write the statement. I can never understand what Asher says.
How's this for a title:
'A continuous study in the general understanding of the public on the rantings of the Arty Farty as they continue to gaze into their collective navels.'
 

Mark Hampton

New member
Geez, Mark, go lay down. I just asked the question. I didn't expect a Project. On second thought, do you think we could get a grant for it? I bags you write the statement. I can never understand what Asher says.
How's this for a title:
'A continuous study in the general understanding of the public on the rantings of the Arty Farty as they continue to gaze into their collective navels.'


"the public gaze into their collective navels of general understanding " is the title then.
 

Tom dinning

Registrant*
On a more serious note (not that becoming famous isn't serious enough), my curious mind often ponders on the indignation of people concerning such action. I wish someone would steal one of my pictures and alter it for their own ends. I'd like to feel indignant for once in my life.
 

Tom dinning

Registrant*
That wish is easy to grant.


That's not my indignation, Jerome, that's Shanon's and I would n't mix with her in a fit. She' d eat you for breakfast and have a second cup of coffee while she disposed of the bones.
I'll keep it from her until you misbehave.
Tom
 

Mark Hampton

New member
ok had a lie down.





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Inside my mind through someones elses eyes and into your head - DEKA​






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above is an imagined re working of some of the toms work on this site - you may also notice a few of ashers pictures of the girls just for the record. thanks for allowing me to re imagine the work anew - i hope i have given you some space to look anew at your pictures.
 

Tom dinning

Registrant*
It isn't your picture?

It's my picture but I don't have any feelings (so Christine says) hence no indignation. But I am aware that 18 year olds are very sensitive and this particular one has warrior Maori blood in her, sufficient to generate considerable emotion and render fear among the toughest of us. Her vibrant language has been known to strip paint off walls and stop venomous snakes in their track.

And what are you up to Mark? Fart arsing about again? Didn't work from this end. Have another go.

Tom
 

Mark Hampton

New member
And what are you up to Mark? Fart arsing about again? Didn't work from this end. Have another go.

Tom

Tom - its a text based offering - Derived by or designating the process of reasoning from facts or particulars to general principles or from effects to causes; inductive; empirical.
2.
a. Justified by appeal to experience.
b. Knowable from experience.

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[Medieval Latin : Latin a, from + Latin posterior, ablative of posterior, later.].

I find its rhythm reminiscent of James Joyce at his best and the brutal red has shades of apocalypse now for me.

sorry it didn't work for you. i think I may leave this area of exploration for while.

thanks for asking for more !
 

Tom dinning

Registrant*
Tom - its a text based offering - Derived by or designating the process of reasoning from facts or particulars to general principles or from effects to causes; inductive; empirical.
2.
a. Justified by appeal to experience.
b. Knowable from experience.

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[Medieval Latin : Latin a, from + Latin posterior, ablative of posterior, later.].

I find its rhythm reminiscent of James Joyce at his best and the brutal red has shades of apocalypse now for me.

sorry it didn't work for you. i think I may leave this area of exploration for while.

thanks for asking for more !


Huh? Talk a language I know, or at least one that exists outside your brilliant but bewildering brain.
 
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