Very interesting....Vivan Maier

[newsgrunt]

Will need to ask him about it next time I stop by.

http://www.streetshootr.com/toronto...-collection-vivian-maier-negatives/#more-2226

 

[Richard G]

Indeed. Thanks. Didn't know there were sharks in Cook County.

 

[Pioneer]

Good old Cook County. Doing what comes natural to them. If you can't tax it, steal it under estate law. 🙂

How many more years before Vivian's bros, or heirs, run out of time?

At that point, assuming nothing further happens, what happens to the copyright?

 

[NY_Dan]

Goldstein should've sold it to the Shanghai Photo Gallery http://www.magda-gallery.com/en/gallery-shanghai

I'd like to see Cook County try to cause trouble then! Vivian Maier, were she alive today would no doubt be tickled to death to learn her work had been Shanghai'd and sent to Shanghai. Now that's a fitting tribute to a self-declared woman of mystery.

Or how about this -- altruistic Goldstein could have released high rez scans to the public to make their own prints.

Or he could have said there was an unflattering photo of a prominent North Korean in the collection and then hackers would leak the photos and he could deduct the losses as a criminal theft from his IRS and Cook County taxes for many years!