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Been having a go at this... Here is one of 3 so far. 
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Neat sculpture. Looks a little two-dimensional from this angle. Got one with a little depth?
A quick shot and move on. I had my head and camera in the snow
to get this one.
It was only well after the fact that I was thinking of what it looked like
had I actually walked a 360 around it. Then came the ponderings of imaging other
peoples art for sale as a picture. Still need to do my homework on that
little detail.
Unless you are shooting art for a catalog or publicity, you really need to incorporate the work into something original of your own. I read the other day that a Giacometti sculpture sold for around $100 million. If you take a pic of it in isolation, it is merely a pic of a Giacometti sculpture. If you could include someone very tall and skinny (or very short and fat) in the same frame, then you're on to something.
No problem.
I figured you probably knew something about that concern. Thanks for
sharing it.
From CBS News
Giacometti sculpture sold for around $100 million.
Wow. Talk about your hot property.
Highly impressive work coming out of his mind and hands. Easy to be
mesmerized by it.
I like the Ostridge egg incorporated in the one piece of his.
As for taking photos of a sculpture -- I can't sell a photo of it unless someone is in the photo too?
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I don't know whether you could have copyright issues or not for a pic that just contains someone else's work of art. I doubt that the problem arises often in the real world. There is skill involved in photographing artwork--lighting must be even and without glare, colors must be true--but unless you add something else to the frame, all the creative credit goes to the artist.
I'll give you an example using my all-time favorite art museum shot by Elliot Erwitt. Two of Goya's most famous paintings, the Majas, hang side by side in Madrid's Prado Museum. They are portaits of a reclining woman, one clothed and one nude. Shooting the paintings alone would just be pics of a painting. Erwitt came up with this:
Photo by Elliott Erwitt
It's a great example of using art to create art.
The statue is used as a memorial for children that have died in our area. People buy bricks with a name inscribed and they're placed around the bottom of this statue. I never photograph the bricks. Never have checked into who did the statue tho. Maybe that's something I need to do and get permission to use this photo????
I did have to chuckle at your posting. The woman is in front of the clothed painting while the men were -- where you'd expect to see them
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I would think a statue in a public place is fair game, but I am not a lawyer so don't place too much confidence in my opinion. Personally, I wouldn't worry about it.
Thanks Richard -- I won't worry about it
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What? You don't have a supply of characters to trot out into art shots when you need them? I keep a couple in my walk-around bag just in case. That's why I love Crumpler so much.
But I soooooooo WANT ONE.
He's completely... Walter Matthau
Will ya check out that show! And its viewing environment.
Serious food for thought, this one. Really serious.
What a shot!!!! Appreciate your letting us see it.
It's qualities will get lost in this thread. It deserves to be
seen in its own thread and shared widely so others will
see it and enjoy it.
Yours too Mary Kim. Its a fine take. Pretty sure I have seen this work as I
believe you posted either this one or another similar but honesty I don't recall. My bad.
Another honesty...
the dressed reclining lady until you noted it... and then my wife chimed in.
Then I saw it.
Hey, thanks Michael. I've gone and created a thread in the Street/PJ section.
Thanks for the heads up. Am going to check it out.