The proposed sell-off of the historic Polaroid Collection has moved a step closer to reality with the announcement by Sotheby’s of dates for the auction: June 21-22, 2010. If the sale does go through as planned and on schedule, it will take place well after the spring art-market season has come and gone and the art and photo worlds have closed up shop for the summer — not to mention in the midst of a deep global recession that has hit the art market hard and the photo market especially hard, with no immediate improvement on the event horizon. […]
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February 11th, 2010 | Tags: Chuck Close, corporate support, Fogg Museum, Harry Ransom Center, John R. Stoebner, Lady Gaga, Magnum Photos, Marion Maneker, Musee de l'Elysee, Neal Slavin, PBE Corporation, Petters Group Worldwide Inc. (PGW), Polaroid, Polaroid Collection, Polaroid Corporation, Sotheby's, Tom Petters | Category: News Commentary | 5 comments 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? […] 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 Based on my admittedly layman’s reading of these documents, they constitute non-exclusive subsidiary-rights licenses based on the exchange of either money or goods for those rights, not transfers of ownership. What Polaroid acquired by that exchange appears voluntarily restricted on Polaroid’s part to “the right to republish my image(s)” and/or “the worldwide non-exclusive rights for exhibition and editorial (non-commercial) publication purposes of the following images in perpetuity.” Since these letters of agreement and release forms originated with the Polaroid Corporation, we can reasonably assume that their terms represent what Polaroid sought to obtain from the photographers with whom they chose to collaborate in this way. […] August 26th, 2009 | Tags: Barbara Hitchcock, copyright law, corporate support, George Slade, Gregory Kishel, intellectual property, La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Musee de l'Elysee, PBE Corporation, Petters International, Polaroid, Polaroid Collection, Sotheby's | Category: News Commentary | 2 comments |
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Polaroid Collection: Update 17
Continuing her detailed coverage of the crisis of the Polaroid Collection, Charlotte Burns in the April issue of The Art Newspaper reports that a considerable number of artists and photographers with work in the collection stand ready to participate in a legal effort to intervene in its imminent dismantling. In her article titled “Polaroid row hots up,” she specifically identifies Chuck Close as having committed himself to fighting the planned June 21-22 auction of the cream of the collection at Sotheby’s in New York. […]