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When visual artists use photographs made by others as the basis for their art

On October 12, the Supreme Court will hear a case that asks whether Andy Warhol's use of Lynn Goldsmith's photograph of Prince qualifies as fair use or is a case of copyright infringement. A lot is on the line. Paul Szynol explains in this piece for The Atlantic.

Incredible how much information is in a single photo - and what people who are trained to look can do with that knowledge.

Maxwell Strachan profiles Trevor Rainbolt for Vice - a man who can look at a Google Maps street view image for 0.1 seconds and identify the country where the image was made. Fascinating story.

I recently took a trip to some of Colorado and Utah's tourist hot spots and often wondered what it meant to photograph places thousands (maybe millions?) have photographed before.

I appreciated this Guardian feature on documentary photographer Natacha de Mahieu's approach to the problem - it's not to isolate the natural or unique feature as if you were cutting it out of the landscape but to surround it with even more people.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

Joe Brainard's book, I Remember, is one of the most compelling books I've ever read. It's not complicated. All the book consists of is a collection of sentences that each start with the phrase, 'I remember' followed by Brainard's memory. And yet this disarmingly simple concept generates the most intensely evocative and powerful work of art. Matt Wolf adds images to Brainard's memories in this short film that's well worth watching. I think there's a lot for photographers to think about in Brainard's technique as a way of helping to generate ideas for work.

EQUITY AND ETHICS IN PHOTOGRAPHY

The work of Diane Arbus was often questioned and sometimes attacked on ethical grounds. How fair was that criticism?

Jacqui Palumbo revisited one of Arbus's most controversial bodies of work, the Untitled series, in this piece in Artsy that wonders how fair that criticism was.

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Photo at the top of The Roundup: © James Prochnik