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J. Paul Getty - The Liberation of Masterpieces as Open Content
The J. Paul Getty Museum has initiated an Open Content Program to share, freely and without restriction, as many of the Getty’s digital resources as possible.
A first sharing of 4,600 high-resolution images of the Museum’s collection, including many masterworks, has just been made available and all are free to use, modify, and publish for any purpose.
In a brilliant stroke, the Getty Museum has liberated one of the top collections of art in the world not just for access but for use. The museum is literally “beaming up” the great works
I bought this book by Charles Denson years ago. I think I purchased it from a local butcher store. 
One morning I set out with my signed copy of the book and my camera to take photos of Coney Island the way it was at that time and compare the area to the photos in the book.
As I was shooting some abandoned, boarded up buildings, I was approached by the local, corner drug dealers. Just a few hostile looking teens who didn't at all look happy to see me with a camera. 
One teen asked me what I was doing. I showed him my book and told him I was trying to document CI the way it looked today. He told me he didn't want his picture taken
Been gone for a long time. Busy with all kinds of crap. You know, life. My eMac won't come on anymore and that's where a lot of my good photos are. But I'm still shooting.
Ingrid