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UPDATE
Got a call early this morning from the Miami New Times about the plagiarism. It's mind boggling how these things can blow up. The article also includes a response from the plagiarist and the gallery which unknowingly was showing his work.
Thank you to all you wonderful people who helped get the word out Molly Crabapple, Alix Fox, Zoetica Ebb and everyone else who blogged, reblogged and shared.
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Walking around Art Basel, this weekend I came across a few pieces in the Scope show that looked pretty familiar. There was a sampling of 3 pieces presented by the Robert Fontaine Gallery all by the same artist. I recognized my photography in two of them and the third was a copy of my good friend Marie Killen's photo. When i got home a quick google search reveled that nearly his entire body of work was comprised of other peoples photography. No credits were given, though that wouldn't have put the artist in the clear. Josafat Miranda hadn't bothered to change the composition or content in any appreciable way, even though that too would not have put him in the clear.
For me, photography was a hobby, something i did for fun. But it was art. These weren't candids, they were carefully composed, edited photos. The model traveled, did her makeup and helped style the shoot. Put simply, it was a collaborative artistic endeavor by me and the model Tracy P.
Marie Killen is a wildly talented photographer living in North Carolina. Photography is her passion and craft and she does it extremely well. In my opinion she's one of the best photographers in her genre. Her shoots require far more work and planning than mine ever did. She's developed, through hard work and practice, a recognizable style.
What Josafat Miranda has done here reveals a total disrespect for photography as an art form. He's quickly and with very little creative altercation, harvesting the yield of someone else's hard work. What makes a painting strong, isn't just the brush strokes and the rendering method, more, much more, than that is the composition, the subject matter and the hundreds of creative decisions that go into making an original piece of art.
Josafat Miranda
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Marie Killen:
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i love to ref. its how i learn,
but i at least hav the decency to ask first,and credit both the photographer and the model.
shameful to say the least
makes evryone look bad