What are the rights of the original photographers, the “nonartists” whose works have been so unceremoniously reconfigured? And…

“What are the rights of the original photographers, the “nonartists” whose works have been so unceremoniously reconfigured? And how can what is found be ordered, or put into a new disorder, and presented again to give it new resonance? And how long will that resonance itself last? The real trouble is rarely about whether something counts as art — if the question comes up, the answer is almost always yes — but whether the art in question is startling, moving or productively discomfiting.”

A Visual Remix - NYTimes.com (viaphotographsonthebrain)