The photographer says that Kanye West using the KKK image on the “Cuck” cap was “unauthorized”

Earlier this month, you, a formerly known artist as Kanye West, revealed the cover of his new album Cuckoo: A provocative image of two members of the Ku Klux Klan in full ownership, closed in what appears to be a warm embrace, with one with a bouquet of flowers.

The image, which was taken by the famous photographer Peter Van AgMael Address The wedding ceremony of two KKK members in a fold in rural AmericaTell him without permission, he said ARTNEWS this week. It does not seem that the West nor its team has contacted Van Agtmael before the announcement. The photographer added that “a legal process is ongoing.”

The album was originally entitled “WW3” and Appointment of the version On April 3, on the same day he revealed the art of cover. The image published by the Image West was slightly different from the original Van Agtmael: a KLAN member was made to look black, and only visual details although the eye openings from the pointed white hood, and a white dog wearing a red head engraved with words “white power” was removed from the original image.

according to The new hip -hop hotand Fans found changing a strange name. It was more strange to be West’s interpretation: “The cuckoo is my whole style,” as it was mentioned. “It is my music, it is the way I wear my position … It was of both sexes, sexual music and roll of homosexual politics of sexual harassment and racism.

Van Agtmael took the picture in 2015 in Tennessee, while working on a story of the Norwegian port A-Magazine. While the Instagram post was deleted in West, the cover was deleted, the original image image next to the West Doctored version is running A-Magazine Website.

In a discussion about the practical aspects of photographing such a controversial topic as KKK, Van Agtmael, which represents it Magnum photosHe once said that to document Klaan members with any feeling of originality, he set some basic rules before the shutter was launched. Besides journalist Vigas Tenold, he explained his existence and gave individuals the option to participate in photography – an option to take some and respect. For those who agreed, they were asked to act naturally as possible.

He said in an interview on Magnum website. He pointed out that positions have value in the end, as they reveal how people want to look at, which can be exactly like how to see them.

The West did not return a request to comment.