Lecture : Useful Strategies of Copying and Stealing

When I first saw this lecture I thought it was very bizarre especially with a title such as 'Useful Strategies of Copying and Stealing' but once I saw the lecture I understood.  Copying and Stealing but also getting ideas to help you along the way are all very different things. When a photographer does a piece of work you should never just Copy it or if your in the business Steal it away, it take away your imagination which you have as an individual, creating something which you have thought through yourself is extra achieving because its all your work..

I was shocked to think that the Olympic Cauldron Flame was a copy and it originally came from a New York Design Studio and they were furious with it, which is understandable as somebody has taken their idea and made it into this big world wide spectacular without concerning the individuals you had the idea in the first place.

Going on through the lecture you are able to see that not everyone copies or steals but purely adapts a photographers idea and puts there own stamp on it to make it more individual and personal to that person. For example when many people look at the "Odessa Steps" in Battleship Potemkin they take pieces of them and create their own image with Battleship Potemkin as their starting point

The rapid progression and alternation of images gives a sensational event even greater visceral impact - rhythmic montage – extended time.

For example Martha Rosler took an image called 'Bringing the War home' which has a bit of Battleship Potemkin in but then has her own idea added in to make it more personal. This is called borrowed appropriation which is ' Media producers take objects, images or practices from popular (or foreign) cultures and restage them within the context of their work to either enrich or erode conventional definitions.'

With my project I don't want to copy or steal anyone's work I would adapt their work into mine if I love it and add my own spin on the image to make it represent me and not the photographer who I got the idea from, as they are very talented and I would never take that away from them.