The Photo Booth That Pays You!

This was an interesting story in Sunday’s Times, “The Theater of the Street, the Subject of the Photograph.” All about the trial against photographer, Philip-Lorca diCoria, who was sued by one of the subjects in a random person portait series from 1999. The suit was finally dismissed this year, but it went all the way to the NY Supreme Court, which has a number of artists a little freaked out, and rightly so. Where does it stop if something like this can get so far? Here’s a bit:

When Erno Nussenzweig, an Orthodox Jew and retired diamond merchant from Union City, N.J.,

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