Category: Ethics
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PDNPulse: Demi Moore’s Lawyer Demands Apology for “Clumsy Photoshop” Charge
Link: PDNPulse: Demi Moore’s Lawyer Demands Apology for “Clumsy Photoshop” Charge
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Loan wolf? Prizewinning photographer faces fakery claims
Loan wolf? Prizewinning photographer faces fakery claims José Luis Rodriguez accused of using tame, ‘model’ animal for close-up that won him prestigious £10,000 award via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/dec/21/wolf-picture-rodriguez-wildlife-photographer José Luis Rodriguez accused of using tame, ‘model’ animal for close-up that won him prestigious £10,000 award
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PDNPulse: The Latest Case of Race Swapping in a Stock Photo
Link: PDNPulse: The Latest Case of Race Swapping in a Stock Photo
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::: The Travel Photographer :::: POV: On Unpaid Photo Internships
POV: On Unpaid Photo Internships travel photographer Link: http://thetravelphotographer.blogspot.com/2009/12/pov-on-unpaid-photo-internships.html A famous award-winning conflict photographer seeks an intern, for 3 days a week for three months, with demonstrable experience in photo and processing related tasks, but the position is unpaid. And the blogosphere and photography forums erupt! Perhaps for good reason.
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Open door: The readers' editor on… death and sorrow in pictures | The Guardian
Open door: The readers’ editor on… death and sorrow in pictures Siobhain Butterworth: The readers’ editor on… death and sorrow in pictures via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/14/open-door-photography-grief-afghanistan A picture can raise as many ethical questions as a thousand words, as two recent images show. The first, a photograph of a murdered young woman lying on a…
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PDNPulse: Tiger Woods, Obama, and the Fake Golf Digest Cover Photo
“It was a photo illustration, based on a shoot with body doubles done in Los Angeles by photographer Martin Ellis. The fact that is looks like it might have been a photo is testament to the work of our [staff].” Link: PDNPulse: Tiger Woods, Obama, and the Fake Golf Digest Cover Photo
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From Bad to Worse – The Digital Journalist
As we were closing this issue, two stories have come across the wire that underline how profoundly deep the crisis is today for journalism and photojournalists. Dallas Observer blogger Robert Wilonsky reveals “a memo Dallas Morning News editor Bob Mong and senior vice president of sales Cyndy Carr sent to everyone at A.H. Belo Corp.…
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Point, Shoot, Retouch and Label? – NYTimes.com
Point, Shoot, Retouch and Label? A French politician is creating a small furor with a proposal to require all digitally altered photographs of people used in advertising be labeled as retouched. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/fashion/03Boyer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss VALÉRIE BOYER is 47, a member of the French parliament and a divorced mother of three. She is tall, fashionable and, dare…
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Time uses RED camera to shoot cover !!! | duckrabbit
Time uses RED camera to shoot cover !!! — duckrabbit Well, so what. Whoopdedoo. How exciting for all those involved. I read a few days ago about how Time mag… via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2009/12/time-uses-red-camera-to-shoot-cover/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+duckrabbit%2FNrks+%28duckrabbit%29 Time, the photographer Finlay McKay and the parents should all be ashamed, they certainly should not be boasting about their so called…
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PDNPulse: World Press Photo Adds Rule About Photo Manipulation
Link: PDNPulse: World Press Photo Adds Rule About Photo Manipulation
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The Ethicist – Not Pictured – African-American Customers
Not Pictured: African-American Customers A Web site redesign brings up the race card; the changing nature of a poker game. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/magazine/29FOB-ethicist-t.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss I am a consultant on the redesign of the Web site of a company with local franchises across the United States. A franchisee in San Diego mentioned that posting a generic picture of…
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Something of the Night: Weegee – Telegraph
Something of the Night: Weegee Capturing the soul of his beloved New York, in all its grit and glory, was what the photographer Arthur Fellig – aka Weegee – lived for. But he wasn’t exactly a stickler for realism, writes Lucy Davies via Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/6616026/Something-of-the-Night-Weegee.html Capturing the soul of his beloved New York, in all…
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Was Demi Moore Ralph-Laurenized on "W" mag cover, with missing hip-flesh? – Boing Boing
Was Demi Moore Ralph-Laurenized on “W” mag cover, with missing hip-flesh? Update: story updated here on December 28, 2009, to include a response from legal representatives for Ms. Moore, and W Magazine. Click here for higher-rez image. Anthony Citrano says, Being an obse… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/17/demi-moore-is-ralph.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 In the interview she says she’d rather be…
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PDNPulse: MSNBC Apologizes for Airing Fake Photo of Sarah Palin
a picture of Sarah Palin in a bikini holding a gun Link: PDNPulse: MSNBC Apologizes for Airing Fake Photo of Sarah Palin
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Redacting Violence: The Photo-Manipulations of Josh Azzarella « Prison Photography
Redacting Violence: The Photo-Manipulations of Josh Azzarella Past and present ruminations about what is and isn’t a photograph have been a source of frustration for me. For one, people can draw whatever lines they wish to determine the point at which m… via Prison Photography: http://prisonphotography.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/redacting-violence-the-photo-manipulations-of-josh-azzarella/ It is therefore, with some relief that an artist…
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Times Responds on Reporter’s Kidnapping – At War Blog
Times Responds on Reporter’s Kidnapping Several Web sites repeated Monday erroneous allegations that The New York Times had paid a ransom for the release of its reporter David Rohde, held by the Taliban for seven months. via At War Blog: http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/times-responds-on-reporters-kidnapping/ False reports persist. On Sept. 13, The Sunday Times in London reported that $9…
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The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 7) – Errol Morris
The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 7) The conclusion of the Depression-era photo-fakery series, with an account of a visit with the subject of “Migrant Mother.” via Opinionator: http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/the-case-of-the-inappropriate-alarm-clock-part-7/ In 1974, Bill Ganzel, a photographer from Lincoln, Neb., went on the road trip. For seven years, carrying copies of photographs by Arthur Rothstein,…
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The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 6) – Errol Morris
Link: The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 6) – Errol Morris Blog – NYTimes.com Often, direction on the part of the photographer is applied in the reenaction of a scene. In such cases, it becomes necessary to interrupt the natural course of action by stopping or repeating.
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The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 5) – Errol Morris
The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 5) In the fifth installment on Depression-era photography and photo-fakery, the focus is on Walker Evans. via Opinionator: http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/22/the-case-of-the-inappropriate-alarm-clock-part-5/ In your review of “Mind’s Eye, Mind’s Truth” you write, “Curtis thinks all manipulation is the same.” That he wants to lump all the F.S.A. photographers into one…
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The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 3) – Errol Morris
The Case of the Inappropriate Alarm Clock (Part 3) If Walker Evans moved furniture around to stage photos for “Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” did that constitute photo-fakery? via Opinionator: http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/the-case-of-the-inappropriate-alarm-clock-part-3/ JAMES CURTIS: My favorite example is Walker Evans moving furniture around inside the sharecroppers’ cabins in Hale County, Alabama. I was talking to…