Week 7 - Museum Trip 2 Research and Photographic Response
We met with Sarah Powell, Rights Specialist, Auckland Museum. Copyright law grants the owner of the copyright exclusive rights to certain restricted acts, which include the following. copying the work publishing, issuing or selling copies to the public performing, playing or showing the work in public broadcasting the work making any work derived or adapted from the copyright work. We then met with Shaun Higgins with the F4 Art Collectives.Like many museums, Auckland Museum is dedicated to collecting, preserving and sharing the past through its objects, texts and photographs. Within the histories these things embody, great events and deeds are memorialised and when it comes to people, photographs play a very special role. For here is a truly remarkable likeness of the person captured as if in a magic mirror. The person in the image and the material object that is the print are locked together for as long as the material lasts, their ...