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sienamysticOne of the photos I snapped ten years while on a study abroad program in Italy is apparently going to be part of a display in Langley Abbey, Norfolk, UK. I am a bit boggled, for several reasons.
The people who are doing the display saw a photo I have on Flickr (under a Creative Commons license, as most of them on there are) of a facade of San Fortunato, a church in Todi that has a tiny little naked nun and monk on separate parts of the facade and then, a little higher up in some ornamentation underneath a sculpture, engaging in some, ahem, non-sanctioned recreation. The company creating the display wants it an an example of "what they got up to then."
It's not a great photo, and the scan is nothing to write home about either, but my offer to rescan it and send them a better high res version was politely declined, mostly because they have to create the panels by...tomorrow. Hee. I know from tight deadlines, and I assume that trawling Flickr saves them some money as well as time by not having to fill out a raft of forms or permissions (all part of my daily job at the museum) in order to get their image.
They'll credit me under my real name, although I'm wondering if that was the right decision because getting credit for a point-and-shoot photo seems almost pretentious. I'm not sure if that reaction is entirely rational on my part, but there it is.
So, there's that, then.
The people who are doing the display saw a photo I have on Flickr (under a Creative Commons license, as most of them on there are) of a facade of San Fortunato, a church in Todi that has a tiny little naked nun and monk on separate parts of the facade and then, a little higher up in some ornamentation underneath a sculpture, engaging in some, ahem, non-sanctioned recreation. The company creating the display wants it an an example of "what they got up to then."
It's not a great photo, and the scan is nothing to write home about either, but my offer to rescan it and send them a better high res version was politely declined, mostly because they have to create the panels by...tomorrow. Hee. I know from tight deadlines, and I assume that trawling Flickr saves them some money as well as time by not having to fill out a raft of forms or permissions (all part of my daily job at the museum) in order to get their image.
They'll credit me under my real name, although I'm wondering if that was the right decision because getting credit for a point-and-shoot photo seems almost pretentious. I'm not sure if that reaction is entirely rational on my part, but there it is.
So, there's that, then.
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Date: 2010-05-20 08:51 pm (UTC)Jess
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Date: 2010-05-21 12:53 pm (UTC)~Kate-h