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Title: Polaroid: The Gift That Doesn't Keep Giving (Artlaw: Contracts)
Author : Henry Lydiate
Release Date : January 01, 2010
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
Pages : * pages
Size : 47 KB

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Artists have always donated their artworks to worthy recipients: family, friends, fellow practitioners, potential buyers and collectors, or charitable and other good causes. Motives for their doing so vary widely from, say, altruism or love and kindness at one extreme to bribery and corruption at the other. Clear and unambiguous documentary evidence of such gifts is needed for the recipient to be sure that the object received was a gift after all--and the reason it was given. These issues are at the heart of yet another art law wrangle that has been exercising the US courts in recent times: who owns thousands of photographs made by artists for the Polaroid Corporation, now that the company has filed for bankruptcy and must sell its assets? It was the initiative of the corporation's founder Edwin H Land, from the launch of Polaroid's first camera in 1948 right up until 2004, to give cameras and films to selected artists in exchange for acquiring the resulting works that experimented with the unique technology. The so-called Polaroid Collection now comprises between 16,000 and 24,000 such works from around 400 artists, including Anselm Adams, John Bodkin, Harry Callahan, Helen Chadwick, Jim Dine, David Hockney, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Robert Rauschenberg, Lucas Samaras, William Wegman, Edward Weston and, most famously, Andy Warhol. Adams had acted as artistic and technical adviser to Polaroid in the early years of the project, and had also taken around 400 photographs himself that went into the collection. The motivation for the project was not solely altruistic: 'It was a way of demonstrating to photographers that there was more to Polaroid's products than the gratification of the instant print', according to Mark Howarth-Booth, honorary research fellow at London's Victoria and Albert Museum (where in 1976, and part-funded by the Corporation, he curated the first UK show of Adams's works).