[WikiEN-l] Wikimedian image restorations exploited on eBay

[Durova]

You're starting to touch on the vigorous debates that a few media editors
have and which hardly anyone else understands.  Let's frame the terms of
discussion properly, though: you begin from the debatable presumption that
restoration and creative input are mutually exclusive concepts.

-Durova

On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Compare that creative effort to--for example--the creative intuition of
> > reconstructing Admiral David Farragut's eyes.
>
> Some would say that any attempt to recreate the eyes and present it as
> a "restored" photograph is misleading. It crosses the line into a a
> new creation, rather than a restoration. Intuitive, maybe, creative,
> yes, but accurate? Who can tell.
>
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_of_the_Sistine_Chapel_frescoes#Eyes
>
> If you paint the eyes back onto the Sistine Chapel ceiling, have you
> truly restored it? Or have you created something new?
>
> Carcharoth
>
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