Category: Ethics
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Photo Stirs Speculation on North Korean Leader
Photo Stirs Speculation on North Korean Leader – NYTimes.com: On June 14, the state-run Central TV showed what it said was a still photo of Mr. Kim posing with a group of soldiers indoors during a visit to a military unit. The Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s largest newspaper, said Tuesday that it looked remarkably similar…
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False photos as a Statement about Photojournalism | dvafoto
False photos as a Statement about Photojournalism | dvafoto: John Vink over on this post on Lightstalkers brought up a very interesting case: two students, Guillaume Chauvin (23) and Rémi Hubert (22), upon winning a Paris Match photojournalism prize, announce that they have faked the pictures in their entry as an exercise and indictment of…
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PDNPulse: Time Magazine Digitally Altered Iran Cover… But How?
PDNPulse: Time Magazine Digitally Altered Iran Cover… But How?
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Why Print Cruel Photos?
Why Print Cruel Photos? | Utah Photojournalism: Your front page photo (June 18) shows Trejon Fite’s mother and friend weeping over the tragedy they are experiencing. Could someone explain why you continually print cruel pictures of weeping loved ones? Are such photos really news?
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CIty of Toronto does crummy job inserting black guy into stock-art photo on official publication
CIty of Toronto does crummy job inserting black guy into stock-art photo on official publication – Boing Boing
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Forum: Suffering and Art – Lens Blog
Lens Blog – NYTimes.com: a conversation among the photo staff about the photography of human suffering and the nature of art. I thought we should involve the larger photo community in our discussion, because it is a profound and timeless question.
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Wrong place, wrong man? Fresh doubts on Capa's famed war photo
The Observer: A Spanish academic has revived the row over ‘The Falling Soldier’, arguing that natural features do not match its claimed site
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AP Reporter Reprimanded For Facebook Post
Threat Level | Wired.com: An Associated Press reporter’s official reprimand over an innocuous comment on his Facebook page has sparked the ire of union officials. They are now demanding that AP clarify its ethics guidelines and are also urging reporters to watch who they add to their friends lists.
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Everybody Knows – The Digital Journalist
Beverly Spicer – The Digital Journalist: It is interesting that the president, who taught constitutional law for a decade at the University of Chicago, would concurrently reveal criminal activity and sweep it aside by suggesting the country simply accept the past and move forward. His suggestion, however, was quickly vetoed in the court of public…
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86 Iconic Images Ruined With Technology
CLICK NOTE: I’m speechless. Gizmodo says: For this week’s Photoshop Contest, I asked you to alter famous and iconic photos by placing technology where it doesn’t belong. We have some absolutely awesome results, so onward! Check out your top three winners and then a gaggle of hilarious images in our Gallery of Champions.
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In Fashion Magazines, Retouching Stirs a Backlash
NYTimes.com says: And yet a raw-celebrity movement has been slow in coming. That may be because, as several editors said privately, celebrities’ publicists almost always demand retouching of wrinkles and visible cellulite. As a result, a celebrity can look different from one magazine to the next.
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NYT retracts posed photo by Zackary Canepari
dvafoto says: The photo was removed from the Times website, but since the initial report of the ethical breach, the photographer’s identity was ferreted out, as was the photo in question. PDNPulse’s report included this line to readers, “Do you think this is over the line?” and others online have argued that this isn’t a…
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New York Times Withdraws Posed News Photo
PDNPulse says: Check out this unusual editors’ note published by The New York Times on Friday
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Images, the Law and War – The Detainee Abuse Photographs
NYTimes.com says: What if, Justice Potter Stewart asked a lawyer for The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case in 1971, a disclosure of sensitive information in wartime “would result in the sentencing to death of 100 young men whose only offense had been that they were 19 years old and had low draft…
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Flight 1549 Photos Published With Airline Logos Censored
PDNPulse says: Stephen Mallon agreed to erase the U.S. Airways logos from the pictures as a condition of publishing them.
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Ten years after Columbine « Perfesser Kev
From Perfesser Kev: A letter written to my students of the time, a couple weeks after the Columbine shootings: May 4, 1999 Dear students, Two weeks ago a horde descended upon Clement Park to cover the massacre at Columbine High School. There bereaved families and students found themselves face-to-face with more camera operators than I…
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Mostly True: Let's Be Honest – Part 2
From Mostly True: it doesn’t take long before these photographers stop even trying to make good pictures and just concentrate on the crap their editors want. Check it out here.
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Gotcha TV – Fox News Crews Stalk Bill O’Reilly’s Targets – NYTimes.com
From Gotcha TV – Fox News Crews Stalk Bill O’Reilly’s Targets – NYTimes.com: Mr. Hoyt, one of more than 50 people that Mr. O’Reilly’s young producers have confronted in the past three years, said the interviews were “really just an attempt to make you look bad.” In almost every case Mr. O’Reilly uses the aggressive…
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Sex, Lies and Photoshop – The New York Times
Jesse Epstein interviews retouchers and talks about, among other things, the French government’s desire to mandate the disclosure of image manipulation. Check it out here.