# B&W photo of scene at home wake - child in foreground

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 28, 2010, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-w-photo-of-scene-at-home-wake-child-in-foreground/537625 "2010-04-28T14:51:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\
**Post date:** [April 29, 2010, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/b-w-photo-of-scene-at-home-wake-child-in-foreground/537625/14 "2010-04-29T00:07:12Z")

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> [@whole\_bean](#):
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> I feel like I don’t have the right to display their images. Celebrities have given their images away, but these people haven’t.

They haven’t? They didn’t give the photographer permission? (Not sure I’m following you.) I can’t really hold with displaying a photograph _anywhere_ without the subject’s permission.

Some feel they should be able to take any picture anytime.

> [@People taking my picture at work- would this annoy you?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/people-taking-my-picture-at-work-would-this-annoy-you/537250/8):
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> Your image doesn’t belong to you. You’re part of the world and anyone who sees you in it has the right to record that image, when you’re not in a place where you’d have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
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> As a photographer it’s an issue that really annoys me in the other direction - I’ve seen some people doing things that would make amazing shots, and asked them if I could take their picture and been told _no_ (even though I had every legal right to do so).

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