Gleaning

Even though it was just a quick scene in the beginning, the shots of people in the museum, taking pictures of the portrait of the Gleaners, was a pivotal part of the message for me. What are these people doing, after all, but gleaning the image for themselves? Of course, their version is not the original painting, which makes me think about the gleaning of images that makes up film. Is this film just a series of images gleaned from Varda's journey? What makes these images Varda's? Especially when the shot is of postcards, or the art of someone she met, or of abandoned potatoes in a field. How is her act of claiming these images for herself an act of gleaning? Who owns these images? How can we even suggest that one can "own" images, in this case?