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The Storyteller’s Kit: The Gear You Need to Tell Stories with Your Photography

Gear does not make the photographer, allow me to state that for the record before we dive in here. A talented artist can make an image with whatever falls into their palm, but for those of us who have the luxury of choice, be it the pocket sized Ricoh dangling from Moriyama’s wrist, or Crewdson’s cherrywood 8×10, a powerful image is about the framing of a moment, the machine it is seen through when chosen properly, serves to simplify and streamline the process.

Photographer Sues Rod Stewart for $2.5M for Recreating Her Photo of the Back of His Head

We've heard of many lawsuits where an artist outright steals an image from a photographer -- that can get pretty ugly -- but what about an artist hiring another photographer to recreate an image that is pretty much identical to the one they wanted to use, but weren't allowed to?

That's the crux of a lawsuit between celebrity photographer Bonnie Schiffman and musician Rod Stewart, who, it seems, recreated an iconic photograph of Schiffman's after she refused to let the artist use it.