[pure-silver] Re: Mortensen's The Command to Look: A Formula for Picture Success
- From: emanmb@xxxxxxxxx
- To: "pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <pure-silver@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:10:13 +0700
As we farang say here, T.I.T.
This is Thailand. :)
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On Jul 26, 2013, at 5:32 PM, Laurence Cuffe <cuffe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Its worth being aware that different jurisdictions have different rules in
> relation to this. It may be perfectly legal for some-one to put a copy of a
> book or document online in their own country, but still be illegal for you to
> view or download it in yours.
> My 2c on that issue.
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> On the substantive issue of composition, I think analyzing the composition of
> images with a view to discerning some profound overarching, underlying deep
> structure has much in common with fortune telling. That is many very general
> statements appear to be giving much more specific advice than they in fact
> do. If you look at some general purpose web archive like flickr you can
> apply rules of composition to a large collection of images, and see if the
> rules are effective at separating the strong from the weak images.
>
> having said that Mortenson is still interesting to read, as is John Alton's
> "painting with light", also available online but definitly not legal for US
> citizens to download or view, hence no link from me.
> All the best
>
> Laurence Cuffe.
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>> On 26 July 2013 12:46, <carlileb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 95 years if the copyright was renewed. But if a book was published before
>> 1964 and the copyright was not renewed, it only remained in copyright for 26
>> years.
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>> I suspect this book wasn't renewed.
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>> Mortensen for some reason is huge right now. Even his International
>> Photography magazine plates are getting bucks. I think he did a lot of junk,
>> personally. But his fights with Ansel Adams in Camera Craft are fun to read.
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