Depression in colour (redux)

[fingertrouble]

Charles W. Cushman - Sep. 27, 1941  - Residents of lower Clinton St near East river Saturday afternoon

OK - following on from me posting about The Commons, museums scanning and sharing their collections via Creative Commons on Flickr, and various blog posts floating around about pre-WW2 photography in B&W and Colour it seems someone has lifted photos wholesale without original link to the the sources and no credit and sent them around as a chain mail.

Carytown's post alerted me to this - not his fault, it's the nature of the internet, but I think credit is due - I recognised one of the photographs so spent some time doing detective work and found them.

New York pictures have been ganked from Charles Cushman, a New York amateur photographer who must have had some spare cash to afford then incredibly expensive Kodachrome. You can see the archive here courtesy of Indiana Unversity, it's an amazing archive.

The rest I think come from the FSA archive now available on Flickr from the Library of Congress - everyone knows the famous black and white Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange, but do they know there were also colour photographs taken also?


Delano, Jack,, 1914-, Side show at the Vermont state fair, Rutland, 1941 Sept.

So even if it's creative commons, PLEASE when you gank something provide a link back, it's only respect to the many photographers who've created the work, and the institutions who are putting them online - give them some love back, please? It's rude not to.

Comments

[badpauly.livejournal.com]

So even if it's creative commons, PLEASE when you gank something provide a link back, it's only respect to the many photographers who've created the work, and the institutions who are putting them online - give them some love back, please? It's rude not to.

Actually, it is illegal not to... I'm pretty sure all CC licenses list attribution as a requirement.

I've actually managed a bit of a coup at work - using and listing CC-commercial photos in the mag :)

[timbearcub.livejournal.com]

Yeah but it's illegal to litter, share CDs, probably breathe in some countries. People still do it though, saying it's illegal won't stop them (I used to gank images pre-CC for comps and work and have to make them unrecogniseable for stuff, not proud of it though)