Picture New York wishes you HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Tis The Season: N.Y.P.D. Style: a Greenpoint blogger gives us a photo essay of the decorations in her neighborhood, and the tale of her detention and questioning by the police while taking Santa’s picture.
Meanwhile back in the city . . . the public hearing about proposed regulations on street photography. Despite the slushy weather, indie filmmakers, press photographers, activists, a schoolteacher, and other New Yorkers turned out for about an hour of testimony. Speaker Quinn’s office and the National Press Photographer’s Association sent representatives, and the rest of us just spoke for ourselves. We’ve linked to the testimony we have copies of, and hope to bring you video of some of the others in the near future.
The Village Voice covered it.
We won’t know until sometime in the new year what the MOFTB will decide to do in terms of amending their camera permits proposal one more time. Stay tuned . . .
Photo credit: dietrich
- posted Fri., Dec 21, 2007 at 11:55am
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December 21st, 2007 at 2:49 pm
[…] at Curbed and Gothamist; my buddy Kevin over at Forgotten-NY, Icky in Brooklyn, Found in Brooklyn, Picture New York, Subchat, NYCPhotoRights and last, but hardly least, The Gowanus Lounge for getting the word out […]
December 23rd, 2007 at 1:13 am
I still am perplexed over the “applauding” and “commending” going on about these “revised” rules.
This is a black and white issue…no grey. These rules are illegal. Period.
PS they should go after street musicians on tin cans drawing crowds in front of the NY Public Library and those damn baby carriages in Park Slope pushing people into the streets…and tourists that gawk and walk in trance-like states…and terrorists…and politicians…and…
December 27th, 2007 at 9:24 am
Colleen, you make a good point. The concilliatory language wears on me too.
Meanwhile, there’s more stories of guard/army/PD pulling people over in public places:
Tis the Season to be Harassed….
http://nycphotorights.com/wordpress/?p=61
December 27th, 2007 at 9:30 am
and more
http://photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00Nf1l
January 16th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
NYPD Harasses Photographer for Taking Pictures of the Verrazano Bridge
http://nycphotorights.com/wordpress/?p=75
March 19th, 2008 at 8:44 am
http://photojojo.com/content/tips/legal-rights-of-photographers/
Say you’re out for a photographic stroll, taking pictures of that cool old power plant on the edge of town. Suddenly seventy security guards swarm you and demand you hand over your camera.
“What is this,” you ask yourself, “a Michael Moore movie?”
You’re sure you haven’t done anything wrong, but you don’t know whose side the law is on. Fret no more- we’ve got a list of things you can and can’t do, and it’s a lot more permissive than you might think.
Now grab your camera back from that Rent-A-Cop and let’s hit the books.
The Ten Legal Commandments of Photography*
http://photojojo.com/content/tips/legal-rights-of-photographers/