MUSEUM PHOTOGRAPHY: Yes But!

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Photography in museums once-was a NO NO! The rationale was mostly to do with cutting out the competition for the museum's POSTcards sales – but that was a bit of a furphy really. So too is the idea that it's designed to "protect artists' intellectual property" as one can copy an original work under copyright for the purposes of 'research' and 'critical review'. Actually, in  a 21st C context, these bureaucratically driven SAYno policies damage artists in the end because they mitigate against CITIZENinitiated critical review – and likewise citizen musing/research. In a PUBLIC MUSEUM/GALLERY most often this kind of BUREAUCRATICnonsense is a bit much.  All this beg the questions ... Why do museums exist and who for? ... click here to read more

NOTE TO THE GRAPHICS

• TOP LEFT = YES to photography BUT NO to FLASHphotography
• TOP RIGHT = YES to photography BUT with visitors required to register that they agree to being licenced under certain conditions – like undertaking to restrict their photography to research and personal review
• BOTTOM LEFT = NO to photography because the target image(s) are Restricted Images and/or restricted because the target image(s) are restricted because it is Cultural Property – and in deference to the cultural sensitivities linked to the target image
• BOTTOM RIGHT = INFORMATION available via the QRcode

Visitors to the Louvre 'snapping' the Mona Lisa