About images' visibility and copyright
The fact of creating a cluster of visual related blogs has been of an excellent idea; not only because it will enrich and create links, but also because it will make stronger the fact of not being able to publicate academic papers with images, images that might have any kind of copyright problems.
To be sincere, never before had I had this problem of wanting to see an article which had non visible images.
But it was exactly after being one of the culturevisuelle early adopters that I faced this problem.
After reading Alexie Geers’ post I follow Sylvain Maresca’s link comment#3, to see what it is. Maresca had already worn us about the fact that in E. Goffman’s article, “La ritualisation de la féminité”, there were no images, but it was only after printing that I really realized what was going on.
Firstly, I thought that there was a problem whith my printer. However, only after a couple of minutes I figured out that all the images had been previously covered, and that the article had been scanned only after that fact.
So, what is the real point in reading and learning from an article that analyses images and not having them? Isn’t it a paradox in itself? I guess yes!
This will definetly be one of the problems that you’ll avoid when reading Culture Visuelle.
Further information about copyrigt can be watched here: lecture by Jennifer Urban.
André Gunthert
Gaby David