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Donn Dobkin's avatar

Fun post! And correct imo

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Hanz's avatar

Oh god those watermarks are so funny. Well done~

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Crina Prida's avatar

I laughed out loud. Thanks. Gosh I f888ing hate watermarks.

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Michael Mejia's avatar

Our Photo department's professionals did not allow watermarks on any assignment. It was considered a rookie move. Besides, there are any number of apps to remove them. Proper meta data was enforced, however...severely.

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Jacob Blickenstaff's avatar

hahaha so good. What would Vivian Mayer have done? Just big Question Marks all over?

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Bill Sawalich's avatar

She’d have gone with a giant black square over everything.

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Jacob Blickenstaff's avatar

Or a big silhouette of a baby stroller

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Scott Spaeth's avatar

narf.

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Thomas D’Arcy O’Donnell's avatar

🦎🏴‍☠️💋

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søren k. harbel's avatar

Always so interesting, Bill!! I am wondering if the heavy-handed reference is one that is driven by the estates of the photographers rather than the photographers themselves. A lot of your photographers here were dead before the internet started giving us the challenges we face today. There are a few interesting rubber stamps out there that I have seen on vintage material from the photographer's own studio, but most are strictly text. The vast majority are simply name, address, and sometimes a phone number. HCB's stamp is all text, on his press prints, with the addition that his images may not be cropped, or shown without credit.

I am not up to date on my tech, but isn't it easier to embed a bit of code in your images, which would be invisible to the user, but would allow the photographer to follow them, if you are worried. Like a block-chain type set-up?

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