{"id":6278,"date":"2010-11-01T04:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T09:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=6278"},"modified":"2010-11-01T04:30:16","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T09:30:16","slug":"appropriation-and-the-art-of-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/appropriation-and-the-art-of-context\/","title":{"rendered":"Appropriation and the art of context&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/molotov_man_joy_garnett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6279\" title=\"molotov_man_joy_garnett\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/molotov_man_joy_garnett.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"538\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/molotov_man_susan-meiselas.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6280\" title=\"molotov_man_susan-meiselas\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robertlpeters.com\/news2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/molotov_man_susan-meiselas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>New York, New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joy_Garnett#cite_note-20\" target=\"_blank\">Joy Garnett<\/a> is a painter whose work is based variously on news photographs, scientific imagery, and military documents she gathers from the Internet,\u201cexamining the apocalyptic-sublime at the intersections of media, politics, and culture.\u201d As such, she has become well-known for her appropriation of journalistic images in her paintings (upper image).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanmeiselas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Susan Meiselas<\/a> is a well-known freelance photographer who joined the standard-setting <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnum_Photos\" target=\"_blank\">Magnum Photos<\/a> co-operative in 1976. She has published several books of her photographs, among them, <a href=\"http:\/\/store.magnumphotos.com\/index.php?main_page=product_info&amp;products_id=2196\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Nicaragua<\/em><\/a>, which tells the story of the Sandinista revolution by means of extraordinary documentary photography\u2014including what has become the iconic image of\u00a0\u201cMolotov Man\u201d (lower image).<\/p>\n<p>It seems a confrontation over authorship and rights was inevitable. Read an excellent article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstpulseprojects.com\/On-the-Rights-of-Molotov-Man.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> (co-written by Joy and Susan, laying out their opposing viewpoints) that appeared in <em>Harper\u2019s<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>\u201cWho owns the rights to this man\u2019s struggle?\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.posterpage.ch\/exhib\/ex199dej\/ex199dej.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Rene Wanner<\/a> for the source\/link.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, New York Joy Garnett is a painter whose work is based variously on news photographs, scientific imagery, and military documents she gathers from the Internet,\u201cexamining the apocalyptic-sublime at the intersections of media, politics, and culture.\u201d As such, she has become well-known for her appropriation of journalistic images in her paintings (upper image). Susan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,7,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}