![]() ![]() ![]() For those I was not granted permission to use, and those from which I did not hear, I substituted full moon images with ‘Creative Commons’ licenses. Installation view at Milwaukee Art Museum, 2016Įveryone’s Photos Any License (654 of 1,146,034 Full Moons on Flickr, November 2015), 2015įor, Everyone’s Photos Any License (654 of 1,146,034 Full Moons on Flickr, November 2015), I requested permission from 654 Flickr photographers to use their 'Rights Reserved' photographs in an installation (654 being the number of photographs I needed to fill a wall), offering to pay them one 654th of my commission if the installation was sold. ![]() Everyone’s Photos Any License seeks to address the shifts in meaning and value that occur when the individual subjective experience of witnessing and photographing is revealed as a collective practice, seen recontexualized in its entirety. Seen as a group, however, they seem to cancel each other out. Seen individually any one of these images is impressive. However, when I searched Flickr for ‘full moon’ I was surprised to find 1,146,034 nearly identical, technically proficient images, most with the ‘All Rights Reserved’ license. In contrast to that project, and perhaps a greater reflection of the current Flickr community, Everyone’s Photos Any License, looks at a purportedly more rarified photographic practice: taking a clear photograph of the full moon requires expensive specialized photographic equipment. I first used Flickr in 2016 as a resource for Suns from Sunsets from Flickr (2006-ongoing), which addresses the ubiquity of sunset photographs, made with common smartphone devices, shared online. Everyone’s Photos Any License, 2015 - 2016Įveryone’s Photos Any License uses the photo-sharing website Flickr to explore how the full moon is photographed and shared through various imaging technologies. ![]()
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