{"id":41742,"date":"2015-12-06T07:17:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T12:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=41742"},"modified":"2015-12-01T12:18:44","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T17:18:44","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-why-cant-i-shoot-my-favorite-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2015\/uncommon-knowledge-why-cant-i-shoot-my-favorite-painting\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: Why Can&#8217;t I Shoot My Favorite Painting?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/smartphone-spy-lens?source=blog_uk120615\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/uk_26935.jpg\" alt=\"Smartphone Spy Lens | UncommonGoods\" width=\"620\" height=\"620\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before the age of smartphones, most museums had a no-photo, not-even-without-flash, don\u2019t-even-think-about-it policy. There were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artnews.com\/2013\/05\/13\/photography-in-art-museums\/\" target=\"_blank\">multiple reasons<\/a>\u00a0for shutting down shutterbugs: first, concern over copyright of artwork and nefarious reproduction; second, good security practice meant museums didn\u2019t want would-be crooks conducting \u201cresearch;\u201d third, flashes degrade painting pigments and delicate works on paper over time; fourth\u2014and maybe most surprising\u2014looking through a viewfinder makes people clumsy. In other words, you&#8217;re more likely to back into a rare sculpture or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2015\/aug\/25\/boy-trips-in-museum-and-punches-hole-through-million-dollar-painting\" target=\"_blank\">fall into a priceless painting.<\/a> Now that everyone has a sophisticated camera in their pocket, it\u2019s a whole new ballgame, and museums are challenged to adapt. Many have embraced the crowd-sourcing potential of social media, letting people Instagram-away as a means of engagement and creative looking. Improved security systems have made casing the joint with a camera less of an issue, but distracted, selfie-stick wielding visitors remain a threat to collections. So, next time you say \u201ccheese\u201d in front of a Van Gogh or O\u2019Keefe, just check the museum&#8217;s photo policy and take care. When you shoot artwork, don&#8217;t shoot to kill.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Smartphone Spy Lens | UncommonGoods\" href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/smartphone-spy-lens?source=blog_uk120615\" target=\"_blank\">Smartphone Spy Lens<\/a> | $20<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether or not you get the Starry Night in the background of your selfie depends on the museum&#8217;s point of view regarding smartphone snapshots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":41748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[557,961,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41742"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41750,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41742\/revisions\/41750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}