fyodorpavlov: swiczeniuk: If I ask you one time, I’ll be polite. I won’t be so polite the second or third time around. You do not have the right to remove the context that I, as the creator, chose to put the image in (even if it’s just listing the model and designer involved in the image - so you aren’t only negating the designer’s work but you are also rendering the model nameless). You are not a curator, a curator understands that text is important with an image. I’d rather you not reblog my photographs at all, than to reblog them with text removed. It’s not like I’m trying to make a living or anything, that would be SILLY.   This. I see this at work so many times on Tumblr and elsewhere. An artist creates a piece of work and puts it in the public sphere in order to share, contribute to the world, promote themselves and their craft/business, receive a compliment or a critique, and there are people who view and treat it with this bizarre sense of entitlement as something that somehow magically came into being and it’s theirs now and they can do what they please with it. I understand it’s your blog, but it’s someone else’s work. Someone else who is making it their life’s work just as you are with whatever it is that you do, someone with feelings. They may be trying to tell a story through what they have created, or they could simply be giving credit to the collaborators on the project. The argument of the artist’s relation to their work can go on for centuries, and has, and there are many different opinions on whether a work of art can and should silently stand apart completely from whoever created it. I have my personal opinions about that, but they are beside the point, because the point is no one has the right to divorce the artist from their art but said artist themselves. So to say that “art will always remain more important than it’s [sic] artist” right to that artist’s face does not make you sound clever, cute or interesting. It just makes you rude. And grammatically incorrect. Just putting this out there for ya, kiddies…  I am not always so polite about it.

fyodorpavlov:

swiczeniuk:

If I ask you one time, I’ll be polite. I won’t be so polite the second or third time around. You do not have the right to remove the context that I, as the creator, chose to put the image in (even if it’s just listing the model and designer involved in the image - so you aren’t only negating the designer’s work but you are also rendering the model nameless). You are not a curator, a curator understands that text is important with an image.

I’d rather you not reblog my photographs at all, than to reblog them with text removed. 

It’s not like I’m trying to make a living or anything, that would be SILLY.  

This. I see this at work so many times on Tumblr and elsewhere. An artist creates a piece of work and puts it in the public sphere in order to share, contribute to the world, promote themselves and their craft/business, receive a compliment or a critique, and there are people who view and treat it with this bizarre sense of entitlement as something that somehow magically came into being and it’s theirs now and they can do what they please with it. I understand it’s your blog, but it’s someone else’s work. Someone else who is making it their life’s work just as you are with whatever it is that you do, someone with feelings. They may be trying to tell a story through what they have created, or they could simply be giving credit to the collaborators on the project. The argument of the artist’s relation to their work can go on for centuries, and has, and there are many different opinions on whether a work of art can and should silently stand apart completely from whoever created it. I have my personal opinions about that, but they are beside the point, because the point is no one has the right to divorce the artist from their art but said artist themselves. So to say that “art will always remain more important than it’s [sic] artist” right to that artist’s face does not make you sound clever, cute or interesting. It just makes you rude. And grammatically incorrect.

Just putting this out there for ya, kiddies… 

I am not always so polite about it.