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Imaginary property

Interview with Bernard Edelman

Owner: 
MoSS
Format: 
Video
Date of Creation: 
2008
Aquired: 
20080709
Author or artist: 
Bernard Edelman
Country of origin: 
France
Current status: 
On display

On the computer at the desk you can watch an interview with Bernard
Edelman which was held in the beginning of July 2008. Edelman sums up
one of the main thesises of his first book "Le Droit saisi par la photographie" which you find in the first showcase.

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.IMP passport

Owner: 
MoSS
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Imaginary Property Research project Passport design by Metahaven Maastricht 2008
Format: 
Object
Date of Creation: 
2008
Aquired: 
20070605
Author or artist: 
Metahaven
Country of origin: 
Netherlands
Current status: 
On display

"Imaginary Property" is a booklet designed by the Dutch design group "Metahaven" and announces a new research project at the Jan-van-Eyck-Academy in Maastricht starting in September 2008.

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Le Droit saisi par la photographie

Owner: 
Eyal Sivan
Tagged with: 
Le droit saisi par la photographie (Ownership of the image Elements for a marxist theory of law) Bernard Edelman Paris 1973
Format: 
Book
Date of Creation: 
1973
Aquired: 
20080220
Author or artist: 
Bernard Edelman
Country of origin: 
France
Current status: 
On display

The french title of Edelman’s book "Le Droit saisi par la photographie"
puns on the law being seized or caught by photography, surprised or
caught out by it. Photography, a technical innovation developing
independently of law, contradicts the existing formulations of property
right in representations of things’

Photography's initial reception underscored the contradiction between
its acceptance as testimonial aid — a reproduction of the real — and as
commodity — a production of the photographic artist. Nineteenth-century

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