99% of the conversation regarding what can and cannot be done to a photograph is about post processing, after the image has been taken . Little, or none, is about before or when the image is taken.
With the exoneration of Officer Morrison overlapping the backlash by the NYPD, we have a poster example of a serious problem with video and police accountability. It’s called over-sharing.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2015/01/police-use-video-as-sympathy-propaganda-media-bait/
A police shooting in Montana and the subsequent use of that video, however, not only raises disturbing questions but opens a Pandora’s Box of new concerns over how and how much these videos can be selectively edited and distributed as propaganda … and how much the media can collude with the state to distribute these versions.
Whoa whoa whoa. What the heck is up with that weird sunspot in the middle of the shot? Don't you have a clear image from this heart-warming, woman-dominated gun-rights demonstration, National Rifle Association? Oh. Oh…
via Gawker: http://fortressamerica.gawker.com/the-nra-doctored-this-stock-photo-to-look-like-a-divers-1679521975
Slate’s Ben Mathis-Lilley points out that the image—used to adorn multiple stories this month on the NRA’s political advocacy site—sure looks like this stock photo of a “campaign rally” from Getty
Millions of people — including many world leaders — took to the streets of France this past weekend to show solidarity in the aftermath of the Charlie
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/01/13/jewish-newspaper-photoshops-female-leaders-charlie-hebdo-march-photo/
One ultra-orthodox Jewish newspaper decided to cover the story a little differently, though: it’s front page photo was a manipulated one that left out female world leaders.
Most legacy news media organizations said Wednesday that they have no plans to publish or broadcast photos of Charlie Hebdo cartoons portraying the Muslim prophet Mohammed, even as many new digital outlets ran the images.
via POLITICO: http://www.politico.com/blogs/media/2015/01/old-and-new-media-split-on-muslim-cartoons-200735.html
Most legacy news media organizations said Wednesday that they have no plans to publish or broadcast photos of Charlie Hebdo cartoons portraying the Muslim prophet Mohammed, while many new digital outlets are running the images.
instead of giving snapshots of what the industry is doing and how policy varies from one desk to another, why doesn’t the World Press follow-up with a 5 point document that clearly define what is acceptable/not acceptable in photojournalism today and tomorrow and politely asks for everyone making a living ( or not) from this profession to approve it and implement it
In response to the increasing ambiguity over acceptable levels of manipulation in photojournalism contests, World Press Photo commissioned a report entitled “The Integrity of the Image: Current practices and accepted standards relating to the manipulation
via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2014/11/the-integrity-of-the-image-tldr/
In response to the increasing ambiguity over acceptable levels of manipulation in photojournalism contests, World Press Photo commissioned a report entitled “The Integrity of the Image: Current practices and accepted standards relating to the manipulation of still images in photojournalism and documentary photography.” It’s 20 pages long, so here’s the tl;dr:
What is current practice, and what are the accepted standards internationally, when it comes to the manipulation of still images in photojournalism? Earlier this year, the World Press Photo Academy commissioned Dr. David Campbell to conduct research on “The Integrity of the Image”, and to assess contemporary industry standards worldwide. The report of his findings is now available.
Every digital image must be touched by software before you see it. But when each pixel is affected, who decides what is true?
The picture is gut-wrenching. It also tells the story. That’s why we chose to run it
Feminists in France are demanding that a statue based on Alfred Eisenstaedt’s iconic ‘VJ-day in Times Square’ photo be taken down. They say that the
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/10/10/french-feminists-say-iconic-vj-day-kiss-photo-shows-sexual-assault-want-statue-taken/
Feminists in France are demanding that a statue based on Alfred Eisenstaedt‘s iconic ‘VJ-day in Times Square’ photo be taken down. They say that the original image it was based on is one that portrays sexual assault.
via Correspondent: http://blogs.afp.com/correspondent/?post/black-flag-over-kobane#.VDQQjb4cFho
Its unusual composition and the fact that the militants’ silhouettes seem out of proportion to other elements led some AFP clients to call the agency to check it was real. Of course, it was.
If you send your holiday photos to Google’s Autoawesome processor, it will snip out the best smiles and poses and combine them to make pictures of scenes that never actually happened.
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/10/07/how-ais-are-rewriting-photogra.html
So Google’s algorithms took the two similar photos and created a moment in history that never existed, one where my wife and I smiled our best (or what the algorithm determined was our best) at the exact same microsecond, in a restaurant in Normandy.
After a trove of nude photos of celebrities was posted online, some champions of anything-goes social media were rueful.
The episode “should be treated like a sex crime, a privacy invasion taken to an extreme,” said Jules Polonetsky, executive director of the Future of Privacy Forum, an advocacy group based in Washington. “Sites allowing the sharing of these pictures can and should be taking proactive action to remove these pictures.”
As we’ve been asking in instance after instance over many months now, where is the line between news and propaganda? between reporting and enabling? between editorial responsibility and corporate self-interest when it comes to publishing such material?
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/08/on-publishing-photos-of-a-public-execution/
Now, all of a sudden, we get the most horrific scenes surrounding Hamas fighters conducting a public execution, and nobody has anything to say about the sudden materializing of the invisible ones — not to mention, how the Reuters agency, in still another instance, brings us front row?
Where are the ethics and the boundaries when the media engagement is so passive, even acquiescent, and the product, so indistinguishable from propaganda that the insurgents feel they can have their way with the exposure?
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/08/enabling-isis-the-vice-videos-and-the-execution-of-afp-photographer-james-foley/
I’m quite uncomfortable with the VICE videos, especially when their head of news programming refused to disclose the terms upon which they were created. Do the VICE videos provide context, the video producer on hand establishing himself as an embed and a documentarian? Yes, they do. At the same time, however, how much was VICE there for the sensation and to enhance their own scintillating brand?
Agence France-Presse, more commonly known as AFP, is in the hot seat once again, less than a year after they and Getty were ordered to pay $1.2 million to
via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/08/13/afp-apologizes-for-syndicating-stolen-image-wired-in-by-stringer-covering-war-in-iraq/
Agence France-Presse, more commonly known as AFP, is in the hot seat once again, less than a year after they and Getty were ordered to pay $1.2 million to photographer Daniel Morel. This time though, the ordeal is far less expensive, ending with an apology shared on Facebook.
Each side has its own spin machine.
via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/08/04/a-reporter-explains-what-its-like-being-trapped-in-the-gaza-propaganda-war/
In virtually every conflict, each side tries to manipulate foreign journalists into covering its grievances, to look at the violence and the destruction through its lens. But Israelis and Palestinians take this to a whole new level.
David Frum wrote an apology Wednesday about tweets he sent out last week calling photos taken in a Gaza hospital fake.
If something happened at night, you can’t turn it into day.
via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/07/about-that-over-processed-cover-photo-of-the-ukraine-malaysia-air-crash-site/
Of course the printed version goes way too far, fundamentally misrepresenting reality. If something happened at night, you can’t turn it into day. It’s the kind of factual misrepresentation