Andy Warhol - ripping off photographer????

[RMThompson]

So I was amazed when I learned that the Andy Warhol piece that was sold for more than 71 MILLION dollars yesterday was nothing more than a silkscreening of the same news PHOTOGRAPH over and over, the photograph being of a nasty car crash that appeared in a newspaper.

So, as a photographer I was shocked. I mean, Warhol certainly had a talent of taking something ordinary and repeating it until it changed into something else, but don't you sort of feel for the photographer?

story here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070517/ap_en_ot/art_auction

 

[mysteryscribe]

If andy didn't pay him sure. If he was paid his price no.

 

[RMThompson]

The yahoo story doesnt go into detail, but from what I understand is he did it without permission.

 

[mysteryscribe]

Then he is slime as well as not much of an artist anyway... I know I know he sold a lot of crap. But so did bob timberlake.

 

[abraxas]

So I was amazed ...

... something ordinary and repeating it until it changed into something else, but don't you sort of feel for the photographer?

Did he have it OTE?

 

[Puscas]

Did he have it OTE?

thanx.






pascal

 

[mysteryscribe]

To be honest to a thief it wouldnt matter a bit.

An honest man wont steal am image. A dishonest one will steal it in malaysia and sell it back in the usa and you cant touch them, so why worry.

 

[fmw]

I guess there is point at which some people actually have too much money.

 

[DSLR noob]

who the hell says. "A silkscreen of a newspaper?! I have to have that, even if it is the price of 71 amazing houses God forbid I learn how to use photoemulsion to make my own silk screen prints."

 

[craig]

I do not feel the photographer cares or is at least concerned. I know if it was my shot I would not care who grabbed it. The photoraph is just a shot of a car crash nothing more nothing less. Mr Warhol transformed it into art. It is more then "a silkscreening of the same news PHOTOGRAPH over and over". The piece is a personal stamp on what he was feeling when he made the illustration.

I know very little of the art market. If a Warhol is worth 71 mill; then I have to be at least worth 5 thousand.

Love & Bass

 

[Seefutlung]

The photog got paid ... as part of his weekly salary. The photo didn't belong to the photog anyway ... it belonged to the newspaper. So if anyone had a gripe it was the paper.

 

[ksmattfish]

Heck, Richard Prince photographs the photos from Marlboro cigarette ads, pretty much prints them as is, and sells them as fine art for millions.

http://www.artcritical.com/appel/BAPrinceRecord.htm

http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001476300

Was is Picasso that said "Bad artists copy. Great artists steal." ?