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Posts tagged “photography”
I am a total geek for history. Particularly hyper-local history. I love spend time just browsing through old photos in the National Library‘s Picture Australia collection and one of my favourite books is still Radical Brisbane (2004, The Vulgar Press, ISBN 0958079455). So this story on GOOD about American nanny and street photography enthusiast Vivian Maier obviously interested me. Both Maier and the story of her posthumous rise to critical acclaim is fascinating. Real Estate agent and amateur local historian John Maloof bought a box of Maier’s negatives at an auction of items from a repossessed storage locker in 2007. He thought he might be able to use some of the images for a book he was co-authoring on Chicago’s Northwestern suburbs. For $400 he scored more than 30,000 negatives. It turns out that Maier…
Categories: Copyright & intellectual property
Tagged: Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, Berne Convention Implementation Act of 1988 (USA), Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago Tribune, collecting institutions, Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) of 1998 (USA), GOOD, history, history - digitisation, history - hyper-local, John Maloof, National Library of Australia, NLA Picture Australia collections, photography, photography - street photography, Title 17 United States Code, United States Copyright Office, Vivian Maier, Vivian Maier - Her Discovered Work blog
It seems like just yesterday I was writing about creative commons and photography. But it wasn’t, it was actually the day before yesterday! And now I have another update. Image identification and visual search software company Idée have added to their Idée Multicolr Search on the exciting Idée Labs, expanding the Flickr Set to include 10 million Creative Commons images from Flickr‘s ‘Interestingness‘ collection. On their blog they beg the question, ‘What’s even better than a Multicolr search lab with 3 million interesting images?’ The answer? One with 10 million Creative Commons images! Search based on your favourite colour combinations, find fantastic images, discover new photographers and all the images you find will be Creative Commons photographs! How cool is that? Simply click colours you want…
Categories: I'll filter this later
Tagged: colour, Creative Commons, photography