{"id":1775,"date":"2010-02-28T09:49:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T14:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2010-02-28T09:49:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-28T14:49:20","slug":"double-vision-did-david-burdeny-copy-sze-tsung-leong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1775","title":{"rendered":"Double Vision: Did David Burdeny Copy Sze Tsung Leong?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-21.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/picture-21.png\" alt=\"picture-21\" title=\"picture-21\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When does inspiration cross over the line into plagiarism and copyright infringement? This is the subject of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-ca-photoplagiarism28-2010feb28,0,4200255.story\">lede story<\/a> for this Sunday&#8217;s Los Angeles Times Calendar\/Arts section, which looks at the work of photographers Sze Tsung Leong [above, top row] and David Burdeny [above, bottom row]. Photography poses special problems in the realm of fair use, because as a medium it is predicated on reproduction, and because it is so widely and easily practiced. As I write in the story, &#8220;some form of transformation of an original work is required to avoid infringement, but just what constitutes an acceptable level of transformation is a matter of interpretation.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/installeong.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/installeong.jpg\" alt=\"installeong\" title=\"installeong\" height=\"125\"  \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/instalburd.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/instalburd.jpg\" alt=\"instalburd\" title=\"instalburd\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[left: Leong installation; right: Burdeny installation]<\/p>\n<p>The Leong-Burdeny case is especially tricky, though I think the fact that Burdeny has borrowed not just photographic subject matter but also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/la-ca-plagiarismbox28-2010feb28,0,4074907.story\">installation style and texts<\/a> from Leong is telling. As the story mentions, there are also images in Burdeny&#8217;s show at Vancouver&#8217;s Kostuik gallery that closely approximate images taken by the German photographers Elger Esser and Andreas Gursky. Although I did not have the opportunity to mention it in the short space of the article, Burdeny has in the past also produced images of similarity to other photographers: <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/wes1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/wes1.jpg\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/burdwes.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/burdwes.jpg\" alt=\"burdwes\" title=\"burdwes\" height=\"175\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[On the left, a photograph by the German artist Michael Weseley. On the right is a Burdeny.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kenna.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/kenna.jpg\" alt=\"kenna\" title=\"kenna\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/burdkenna.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.marklamster.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/burdkenna.jpg\" alt=\"burdkenna\" title=\"burdkenna\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[On the left, Michael Kenna. On the right, David Burdeny.] <\/p>\n<p>This is, quite obviously, a weirdly fascinating story, and one that is still developing. Stay tuned. In the meantime, thanks to everyone who spoke with me about this story, both on the record and off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When does inspiration cross over the line into plagiarism and copyright infringement? This is the subject of my lede story for this Sunday&#8217;s Los Angeles Times Calendar\/Arts section, which looks at the work of photographers Sze Tsung Leong [above, top row] and David Burdeny [above, bottom row]. Photography poses special problems in the realm of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/?p=1775\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Double Vision: Did David Burdeny Copy Sze Tsung Leong?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marklamster.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}