A New York gallery displayed an AI-generated colourised version of Ansel Adams’s Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941) at an AIPAD photography show. The work was offered for sale in multiple editions at set prices. Anger grew online over whether the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust had been involved. The trust stated it was not consulted or notified before the work appeared and asked for removal after learning about it. The trust said the dealer kept the work on display and used Adams’s name, the Moonrise image, and the AIPAD presentation to market AI colourisation services for works from other artists’ estates. The trust emphasized concerns about artists’ rights rather than AI experimentation in general.
"“It exploited Ansel's name, reputation and his most iconic image, while failing to identify any human artist responsible for its creation,” the statement reads. It adds that the trust “was not consulted or notified before the work appeared”, and once the trust learned about the AI copy, it reached out to gallery owner James Danziger and asked that the work be removed from display."
"Not only did Danziger keep the work up at the fair, however, the trust says it found out the dealer “leveraged Ansel's name, Moonrise and the Aipad presentation” to push a commercial venture to colourise works from other artists' estates using AI."
"“Ansel was an innovator who expanded the expressive and technical possibilities of his medium. He was remarkably prescient about-and excited by-the potential of computers to transform photography. The trust's concerns are not about AI or creative experimentation in the abstract,” the statement continues. “This is fundamentally about artists' rights and mo”"
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