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Which is why galleries in the UK usually forbid photography.


Flash photography, as they are worried about the cumulative effect of millions of flashes per year damaging the pigments, same as leaving the painting out in the sun would.


/All/ photography in the National Portrait Gallery in London is forbidden, with or without flash. They are worried about losing control on works where copyright has already expired.

http://www.npg.org.uk/about/FAQ/do-you-allow-photography-in-... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud




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