Category: Ethics
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Magnum Photos addresses Libyan Secret Service photo archive controversy
British Journal of Photography: Magnum Photos’ vice president Christopher Anderson has adressed the controversy arising from the distribution of Libyan Secret Service photographs via the agency’s website, BJP can report
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Digital image analysis verifies authenticity of Reuters photograph
Dr. Neal Krawetz: Over the last 48 hours I have received nearly a dozen requests to voice an opinion on an alleged fake photo. The photo, by Reuters photographer Anis Mili, is described as “A rebel on crutches fires a rocket propelled grenade while fighting on the front line in Sirte September 24, 2011”. The…
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Bob Dylan’s Unoriginal Paintings
Bob Dylan’s Unoriginal Paintings – A Photo Editor Seems that the Gagosian Gallery of Cariou v. Prince fame can’t stay away from artists using photography to make their art. This time it’s Bob Dylan who takes photographs, repaints them and then claims they are “firsthand depictions of people, street scene via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/09/28/bob-dylans-unoriginal-paintings/…
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What Are Ethics When Everyone's A Photographer?
ABC.AU: How do you remain an ethical photographer when everyone’s relentlessly Twitpic-ing, Facebooking and sharing pics taken from their 5 megapixel cameraphones with the latest Apps installed to give artifical effects and ambience to their images?
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Another doctored image pulled
That photo of the mayor in Lithuania, driving a tank over an illegally-parked Mercedes? Faked… via Rob Galbraith
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DIANE ARBUS: "Notes from the Margin of Spoiled Identity – The Art of Diane Arbus" (1988)
American Suburb X: The principal issue raised by the remarkable photographs of Diane Arbus seems not to be their remarkableness, which few would dispute, but their morality. The very potency of her images, their dangerous, disturbing allure, demands an almost instantaneous moral judgement on the part of the viewer. Her pictures call forth an immediate…
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AP kills photo altered by state-run North Korean news agency
The flood photo that isn’t The Associated Press has withdrawn a photo depicting flooding in North Korea, released recently by the reclusive communist country’s news service, claiming that signs of digital manipulation were detected. The American news wire agency transmi via Korea JoongAng Daily: http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2939105 North Korea claimed that seven North Koreans are walking in…
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Did Wired withhold important context about Bradley Manning chat logs?
Poynter: Chief among them is that Lamo told Manning, “I’m a journalist and a minister … treat this a confession or an interview (never to be published),”
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AP updates social media guidelines a week after warning staffers about expressing opinions
Associated PressThe Associated Press has released an update to its social media guidelines. “Just as
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AP Drops Freelancer Who Cloned Shadow Out Of Photo
When an alert photo editor spotted Photoshop cloning in a picture by freelancer Miguel Tovar from th
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Another Photo Manipulation Case Raises Question: Is the Penalty High Enough?
Just firing news photographers who manipulate images doesn’t seem to be doing the trick, because pho
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Amy Lee Firing by Huffington Post Exposes Hypocrisy When it Comes to Site's News-Stealing Business M
It only took us a matter of seconds to find a story on the Huffington Post’s Los Angeles page t
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CBS broadcasts altered views of Boston’s Fourth of July fireworks – The Boston Globe
CBS broadcasts altered views of Boston’s Fourth of July fireworks Those who watched Boston’s revered Fourth of July celebration Monday night on CBS were treated to spectacular views of fireworks exploding behind the State House, Quincy Market, and home plate at Fenway Park, among other places – great views, until via Boston.com: http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2011/07/08/cbs_broadcasts_altered_views_of_bostons_fourth_of_july_fireworks/?page=full Those who…
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Move to Close Newspaper Is Greeted With Suspicion
Move to Close Newspaper Is Greeted With Suspicion An outpouring of suspicion and condemnation came from all directions on Thursday, following the News Corporation’s decision to shut down the British tabloid The News of the World. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/world/europe/08newscorp.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss There are already indications that The News of the World may be reconstituted in some form. People…
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News of the World to "close"
News of the World to “close” News of the World, the Murdoch-owned newspaper at the center of a phone ‘hacking’ scandal, is to close after Sunday’s edition. Though the world’s second largest English-lang… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/07/07/news-of-the-world-to.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag News of the World, the Murdoch-owned newspaper at the center of a phone ‘hacking’ scandal, is to close…
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News of the World to close in wake of phone-hacking scandal
James Murdoch said that the tabloid and News Corp. “failed to get to the bottom of repeated wrongdoing that occurred without conscience or legitimate purpose.”
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Murdered schoolgirl was among cellphone "hacking" victims
British tabloid News of the World illegally accessed the messages left on the cellphone mailbox of missing schoolgirl Milly Dowler, then deleted them to allow more to arrive.
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Chinese government photoshop disaster goes viral
Chinese government photoshop disaster goes viral A crummy government photoshop propaganda disaster in China has turned into a meme among Chinese netizens, who are furiously remixing three enthusiastic government officials into all manner of situa… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/28/chinese-government-p.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag On the afternoon of June 27, our reader interviewed the Huili County Government publicity department director…
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Newsweek ages Diana to 50 in ultimate photoshop disaster
It is “rather jarring,” writes Matt Donnelly of the LA Times.
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Photos of presidential speeches to be captured in real time – The Washington Post
Photos of presidential speeches to be captured in real time The White House and news photographers agree to a new plan for shooting presidential speeches. via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/photos-of-presidential-speeches-to-be-captured-in-real-time/2011/05/31/AGdHPhFH_story.html The White House and news photographers have agreed to a new plan for shooting presidential speeches. Out: staged, after-the-fact photo ops. In: a single photojournalist, who…