A letdown: This month, the internet didn’t fix itself.
The breakdown: Soon after street photographer Brandon Stanton, founder of the “photographic census” blog Humans of New York, turned down a $15,000 offer from DKNY to purchase rights to 300 of his photos, he learned from a fan’s snapshot that the company had gone ahead and used his photos for their marketing campaign anyway. There they were, plastered behind mannequins in a Bangkok store window—cut up for reformatting, blurred by reflections, but still unmistakably his.
