The legal issues are only part of my concern. My main issue is what we are about as artists.
In another thread Mike McCarty wrote about some photos he took of a subject. First is his quote, and next is my response. Mike wrote:
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I am drawn to those images which bring a less than cute, singular emotion to the viewer. It must be something that I subconsciously press for at the time I photograph the subject. I like it most when a story can be told in a tight compact space. Almost everything I do is through intuition.
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This was my response to him:
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This is exactly what I mean when I encourage aspiring portrait artists to take their own photos and not copy client snapshots, or, even worse, commercial studio photos. You're bringing a big part of "you" to the work by taking your own photos. What we paint is more important than how we paint it.
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