AboutMark Gluckman Expertise I can answer questions about all social photography (wedding, corporate, b`nai mitzvah). All general questions about digital photography and, of course, film.
Photojournalistic and travel photo questions can also be asked as that is another specialty of mine.
Experience
Past/Present clients McDonald's, Sprint, GE, Ford, NBC, IBM, Princess Cruises, NCL and I work the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon every year.
I have worked for The New York Times, USA Today, AP and dozens of other international and national publications.
I have shot hundreds of weddings, b'nai mitzvah and corporate social events.
Question I have a photo of myself (just myself, no one else) taken by a friend at Slide Rock State Park in Arizona. I want to use this photo as the front cover of my next poetry book, which will be self-published and available for sale on Amazon.com. I want to know if it would be legal for me to use the photo, or if I have to obtain permission from the state park where it was taken. And if I do need permission, do they have the right to charge me a fee to use the photo? One might say I don't need permission if the area in the photo is hard (or impossible) to recognize, but there is a very distinguishable (in my opinion) landmark in the photo that some are bound to recognize.
Also, do you know if it is legal to publish a photo of a place (like a business) that no longer exists without having to obtain permission from the owner of said place? For example, there was an abandoned building in a nearby town that looked like it might have been a garage, called The Last Resort.
I took a picture of the front of the building because I liked the ironic connection between the name and the rundown look of the place. Since then I have considered using the photo as a book cover for one of my upcoming books. Upon returning to the area years later, I found that The Last Resort had been torn down. I remind you that the business had obviously either closed or moved at the time the picture was taken, as the building was empty and old.
Answer You never need permission to use a location shot. Sometimes you must ask permission to photograph in a sensitive area (power plants, retail stores, etc.). Since it was a photo of you, nothing is needed. You can give the photographer credit and state that the photo was taken at Slide Rock.
