Category: Thoughts & Theory

The Los Angeles Police Department may be giving bloggers from BlogHer.com a hard time in getting “media credentials” that they can use to get access to the GOP debate. That’s awkwardly phrased, I know, because it’s not clear if they are blocking them from getting credentials or if they’re putting them through the standard background check procedure or if they...

Two recent pieces worth looking at … In the New York Times is a story about Richard Prince’s “art” – done by rephotographing famous ads and printing them large. Fair use? Copyright violation? No one’s sure yet. Up next is a piece from Newsweek titled, “Is Photography Dead?” Which … well … no, it’s not. But author Peter Plagens has...