bclaytonphoto opened this issue on Oct 19, 2010 · 5 posts
bclaytonphoto posted Tue, 19 October 2010 at 1:01 AM
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/you-can-photograph-that-federal-building/?hp
The right of photographers to stand in a public place and take pictures of federal buildings has been upheld by a legal settlement reached in New York.
In the ever-escalating skirmishes between photographers and security agencies, the most significant battlefield is probably the public way — streets, sidewalks, parks and plazas — which has customarily been regarded as a vantage from which photography cannot and should not be barred.