Vivian Maier's undeveloped film on hold amid legal fight

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23 points·jacquesm··8 comments

I find it ironic that the bit that bothers me the most about this article is the expressed need to be "touched up to remove imperfections"

That's one of the beauties of any analog medium - the imperfections. I'm sad that someone who would curate such a collection would feel the need to remove those imperfections.

Whether digital or analogue, it can take a great deal of work to make a print from a negative. Ansel Adams work was largely made in the darkroom process, manipulating the image heavily - and he was fantastic at it.

True, but all we have left of this particular artist is the negatives; manipulating them is changing it from their art to the art of the person doing the manipulation.

Not a bad thing in and of itself, but it represents a loss, in my opinion.

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Perhaps creating derivative work could be way to go. Just developing, scanning and retouching images might be enough in some countries.

You need permission to create derivative works.

In some countries derivative work is covered by fair use. Also the fact he has negatives could indicate permission (in some countries).

Anyway, I am just trying to help, thanks for down votes. If they hunt some remote cousin in France, re-importing seems legit.

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