I think it is incumbent on the Polaroid Corporation to answer some increasingly urgent questions. To wit: How does the Polaroid Corporation account for the discrepancy between the repeated estimate of 22,000-24,000 prints in the collection, given out by the Polaroid Corporation as recently as summer 2009, and the official inventory of 16,000 presented to the Minnesota court in spring 2009? Can the Polaroid Corporation verify its actual acquisition and legal ownership of all the works it claims as its outright property in the Polaroid Collection, above and beyond authorization from the courts to sell them? […]
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December 14th, 2009 | Tags: Barbara Hitchcock, corporate support, George H. Singer, John R. Stoebner, La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Lindqvist & Vennum, Manfred Heiting, Musee de l'Elysee, Polaroid, Polaroid Collection, Polaroid Corporation, Sotheby's | Category: News Commentary | 2 comments In effect, if not by intent, several iterations of the corporate entity known as the Polaroid Corporation have used the bankruptcy courts of Delaware and Minnesota to launder the world-famous Polaroid Collection by legally severing it in toto from any binding, enduring contractual relationships with the picture-makers whose work it contains. In so doing, the court has endorsed the seller’s effective breach of contract in relation to thousands of artworks by hundreds of artists. As precedent, this decision will have ramifications and resonances that the court clearly has failed to envision. . . . […] November 27th, 2009 | Tags: Barbara Hitchcock, copyright law, corporate support, David Ross, George H. Singer, Gregory Kishel, intellectual property, Polaroid, Polaroid Collection, Sam Yanes, Sotheby's, Tom Petters | Category: News Commentary | 2 comments Polaroid Model 20 Swinger Manual, 1965. Ali McGraw as cover model. It ain’t over till it’s over, as Yogi Berra famously remarked. Presently a distinguished law firm is in dialogue with a distinguished photographer concerning the possibility of filing a Motion for Rehearing of the August 27, 2009 decision by the Minnesota Bankruptcy […] November 6th, 2009 | Tags: Barbara Hitchcock, copyright law, corporate support, George Slade, intellectual property, Polaroid, Polaroid Collection, Sam Joyner, Stephen Perloff, The Photo Review, The Photograph Collector, Tom Petters | Category: News Commentary | 3 comments Alas . . . All Our Love’s in Vain First, the good news: Four of the letters objecting to the proposed Minnesota Bankruptcy Court approval of sale of the Polaroid Collection — those sent by myself, Judy Dater, Bea Nettles, and Jan Pietrzak — arrived in time to get entered into the record […] August 28th, 2009 | Tags: Ansel Adams, Barbara Hitchcock, copyright law, Edwin H. Land, Eelco Wolf, George H. Singer, George Slade, Gregory Kishel, intellectual property, Jon Holmes, Linda Benedict-Jones, Manfred Heiting, Polaroid, Polaroid Collection, Sam Yanes, Sotheby's | Category: News Commentary | 8 comments |
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Polaroid Collection: Update 19
I propose that the creation of a virtual version of the Polaroid Collection, in the form of a comprehensive annotated database of its contents placed online, should become a priority as we move inexorably toward some disposition of the collection that will certainly include sales of individual pieces (the auction), as well as sales or donations of chunks of the remainder to one or more institutions. This should start with the gathering together of existing databases and other annotated records cataloguing portions of the collection or its entirety. From the standpoint of the collection’s significance to the history of photography and our understanding of visual culture in the second half of the twentieth century, the production and availability of such a resource would go along way to making up for the dispersal of its analog contents. […]