When published on the Bee’s front page on Sunday as part of a two-picture combo, the images carried a byline for longtime Bee staff photographer Bryan Patrick.
Category: Ethics
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Accused Of Digitally Altering Photo, Sacramento Bee Suspends Veteran Photographer
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Where’s the line on toning photos, especially for contests?
The core determinant, for me, is whether objects were moved, people’s faces were changed, images were combined in a way that altered what anyone would have seen in the setting, or if things were removed from the frame
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Photo From North Korea Funeral Was Doctored
From North Korea, an Altered Procession
A photograph distributed by North Korea’s state news agency and transmitted to news organizations on Wednesday was altered using Photoshop.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/28/from-north-korea-an-altered-procession/?pagewanted=all
perhaps it was because the scene was so nearly impeccable that someone — an overzealous North Korean photo editor? — appears to have taken issue with an errant group of men, barely noticeable in a sweeping photograph of the procession in central Pyongyang, and removed them
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A question of ethics: Photographers in the spotlight
A question of ethics: Photographers in the spotlight
In the fourth of a week-long series by guest bloggers, Max Houghton looks at the ethics surrounding the creation and publication of certain news photographs.
via BBC News: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-16282985
Photographers are facing enormous ethical questions posed by the allegations aired during the ongoing Leveson inquiry. Here, Max Houghton, course leader in MA Photojournalism at the University of Westminster and a writer on photography offers her personal views on the challenges ahead.
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Image Tool Catches Fashion Industry Photo Alterations
Image Tool Catches Fashion Industry Photo Alterations
A new photograph-analyzing tool quantifies changes made by digital airbrushers in the fashion and lifestyle industry, where image alteration has become the psychologically destructive norm.
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/11/photo-alteration-analysis
A new photograph-analyzing tool quantifies changes made by digital airbrushers in the fashion and lifestyle industry, where image alteration has become the psychologically destructive norm.
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AP issues staff guidelines on retweets, no ‘personal opinions’ allowed or implied
Retweets, like tweets, should not be written in a way that looks like you’re expressing a personal opinion on the issues of the day. A retweet with no comment of your own can easily be seen as a sign of approval of what you’re relaying
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Cognitive Dissonance and Photojournalism
In journalism justifications like that pop up frequently to argue why something considered unethical should be seen as okay “under the circumstances.” You’ve heard them: “magazines are different from newspapers” or “the cover is an advertisement” to explain away a breach of journalism ethics. Our ethics should determine our actions, of course. But there seems to be an unending stream of ways journalists justify letting their actions determine their 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
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 photo, taken from right behind the RPG as it is launched, is truly amazing.
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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/
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 scenes, architecture and landscape.”
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What Are Ethics When Everyone's A Photographer?
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 stance which, it would seem, just cannot remain equivocal, yet which in many cases is tinged with uneasy contradiction. To some, Arbus is seen as the prime exemplar of the fundamental baseness of the photographic act, that act which caters ineffably to the disinterested voyeur lurking in us all. Others laud her for her compassion and her humanity, finding in her work an empathy with a disadvantaged subject matter to rival that of Riis, or Hine, or any of the great photographic humanists.
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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 a flooded street in this July 15 photo North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency took, which it provided to AP. In the photo, residents walk in knee-deep water, but photo experts suspect the photo of being retouched, citing the relatively dry clothes of the residents as evidence. [YONHAP]
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AP Drops Freelancer Who Cloned Shadow Out Of Photo
On Sunday we were faced with a case of deliberate and misleading photo manipulation by a freelancer on assignment for the AP at the Copa America soccer tournament in Argentina.
Miguel Tovar chose to clone some dust from one part of a feature photo to another in order to obscure his own shadow, which was visible in the original photograph showing children playing soccer -
Another Photo Manipulation Case Raises Question: Is the Penalty High Enough?
Another Photo Manipulation Case Raises Question: Is the Penalty High Enough? | PDNPulse
Just firing news photographers who manipulate images doesn’t seem to be doing the trick, because photographers keep doing it. This time it was freelancer Miguel Tovar, who was on assignment for the AP at the Copa America soccer tournament in Argentina. Hi
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/07/another-photo-manipulation-case-raises-question-is-the-penalty-high-enough.html
Just firing news photographers who manipulate images doesn’t seem to be doing the trick, because photographers keep doing it.
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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 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 you consider that they were physically impossible.