Category: Ethics

  • State of the Art: Did Fake Photos Skew Georgian War Coverage?

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    CLICK NOTE: After looking at all of the photos in question, this looks to me like a bullshit accusation. Several blogs are reporting that images by wire-service photographers from the conflict between Russia and Georgia were staged. Check it out here.

  • I Was There. Just Ask Photoshop. – NYTimes.com

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    REMOVING her ex-husband from more than a decade of memories may take a lifetime for Laura Horn, a police emergency dispatcher in Rochester. But removing him from a dozen years of vacation photographs took only hours, with some deft mouse work from a willing friend who was proficient in Photoshop, the popular digital-image editing program.…

  • Photography as a Weapon – Errol Morris – Zoom – New York Times Blog

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    As almost everyone knows by now, various major daily newspaper published, on July 10, a photograph of four Iranian missiles streaking heavenward; then Little Green Footballs (significantly, a blog and not a daily newspaper) provided evidence that the photograph had been faked. Later, many of those same papers published a Whitman’s sampler of retractions and…

  • Beijing Olympic 2008 opening ceremony giant firework footprints 'faked' – Telegraph

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    As the ceremony got under way with a dramatic, drummed countdown, viewers watching at home and on giant screens inside the Bird’s Nest National Stadium watched as a series of giant footprints outlined in fireworks processed gloriously above the city from Tiananmen Square. What they did not realise was that what they were watching was…

  • Believe it or not, these are fake — chicagotribune.com

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    We’ve seen some really fantastic videos online lately. How to use your cell phone to pop popcorn. A professional kicker putting a football between the uprights from 110 yards away. A ball girl making a remarkable catch as she scales the outfield wall. And a tornado ripping through Nebraska. All these videos have one thing…

  • In an Iranian Image, a Missile Too Many – The Lede

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    As news spread across the world of Iran’s provocative missile tests, so did an image of four missiles heading skyward in unison. Unfortunately, it appeared to contain one too many missiles, a fact that had not emerged before the photo appeared on the front pages of The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune and several…

  • State of the Art: More Fallout Over Fox News Photo Story

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    Last week I posted a little something on the controversy surrounding Fox News and it’s decision to doctor photos of a New York Times reporter and editor. The reporter, Jacques Steinberg, had written a piece about an apparent weakening in Fox News ratings. The doctored images made him and his editor, Steven Reddicliffe, look bad…

  • Controversy around "uncontacted" tribe photos – Boing Boing

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    Survival International, the organisation that released the pictures along with Funai, conceded yesterday that Funai had known about this nomadic tribe for around two decades. It defended the disturbance of the tribe saying that, since the images had been released, it had forced neighbouring Peru to re-examine its logging policy in the border area where…

  • Was photo a racial stereotype?

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    “An absolutely disgusting photo,” said Darlene Tye, a transplant from California who is especially sensitive to how Southerners are depicted in the media. The missing teeth and what she described as unkempt attire reinforced a stereotype about people from the South, she said. Valerie Cox objected to the photo for other reasons. After attending the…

  • Washington Post’s “Doctored” Photo is a Non-Scandal / Jossip

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    It turns out this photo of Tiger Woods in the Washington Post, which Photoshop Disasters fingered for being a doctored image, is actually not a photo editor’s bungled work Check it out here.

  • PhotoshopDisasters: Washington Post: Unlikely

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    Aren’t newspapers supposed to not do things like this? (I mean real newspapers, not National Inquirer or the British tabloids.) Isn’t there some sort of oath of journalistical ethics that they have to swear or something? Check it out here.

  • Doctored Photo On Daily News Cover Causes Stir

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    A photo printed on the front cover of the Philadelphia Daily News is causing a stir. The cover shows Jocelyn Kirsch, the “Bonnie” in the Philadelphia “Bonnie and Clyde” identity-theft ring, lounging in a bathing suit. However, the photo also shows a house-detention bracelet on Kirsch’s leg that was edited into the photo. In the…

  • Mag takes sexy quake pics: World: News: News24

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    A Chinese magazine has been shut down for printing pictures of scantily clad women posing in rubble for a special report on the country’s devastating earthquake, officials said on Wednesday. The New Travel Weekly, a small lifestyle magazine, ran photos of sultry models in their underwear amid the debris in an issue that hit the…

  • The Art of Soviet Propaganda: Iconic Red Army Reichstag Photo Faked

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    A Soviet soldier heroically waves the red flag, the hammer and sickle billow above the Reichstag. Yevgeny Khaldei photographed one of the iconic images of the 20th century. But the legendary image was manipulated to conceal the fact that the Soviet soldiers on the roof had been looting. An exhibition of Khaldei’s work opens in…

  • The World of Fashion: Pixel Perfect: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker

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    Pascal Dangin is the premier retoucher of fashion photographs. Art directors and admen call him when they want someone who looks less than great to look great, someone who looks great to look amazing, or someone who looks amazing already—whether by dint of DNA or M·A·C—to look, as is the mode, superhuman. (Christy Turlington, for…

  • The Backlash Against Magazine Airbrushing

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    Airbrushing celebrity and model photos has become so common that it’s a popular pastime for magazine readers to spot the digital manipulations. But have photo editors gone too far? Check it out here. Via PDNPulse.

  • Anatomy of a Hillary Clinton photo op — the pictures and the reality

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    The photo op. Sen. Hillary Clinton had another one Wednesday. They’re usually staged before 1 or 2 p.m. to give crews time to edit the film and prepare their stories for the dinnertime news. What TV viewers eventually saw was Clinton at a South Bend, Ind., gas pump with high prices. (See how she’s perfectly…

  • Burning Desire

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    Kim Komenich: Which brings us to the reason for this piece. Recent reports of overzealous edge-burning and the removal of extraneous limbs in backgrounds caused the editors of Sports Shooter to put out a call for opinions. Here’s mine: I think that directing the reader’s eye “in the moment”, like Cartier-Bresson, is always preferable to…

  • 'Thou shall not over-tone!'

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    The bottom line is this, if you are presenting work as the truth when in reality, it is not; you have only yourself to blame. Former Photojournalism sequence chair at Western Kentucky Mike Morse said it best, “you are either in the truth business… or you are in the entertainment business.” Check it out here.

  • Solved!: Time Cover Is A Basketball Ad

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    Kind of sad. Come on, Time, we know you’re better than this. Check it out here.