In Rudik’s case, for instance, he was disqualified for removing the smallest element, but I would argue that all his other manipulation to the image in question did much more to change the meaning.
Category: Ethics
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PDNPulse: Yet Another Photo Doctoring Scandal
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Behind the Scenes: Altered and Out – Lens
Behind the Scenes: Altered and Out
The manipulation of digital imagery has — briefly — claimed another important victim: the World Press Photo Contest.
via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/behind-35/
The manipulation of digital imagery has — briefly — claimed another important victim: the World Press Photo Contest.
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World Press Photo disqualifies photographer
World Press Photo has disqualified photographer Stepan Rudik for altering his images “beyond the boundary of what is acceptable practice
Link: British Journal of Photography – World Press Photo disqualifies photographer [updated @ 3.50pm]
via: World Press Photo disqualifies photographer | duckrabbit – we produce beautifully crafted multimedia
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Did David Burdeny copy Sze Tsung Leong's photographs? – latimes.com
Last month, the New York-based photographer Sze Tsung Leong was on location in La Paz, Bolivia, when he received a phone message from his New York gallerist, Yossi Milo. It had come to Milo’s attention that a Canadian photographer was exhibiting a series of works in Vancouver that bore a striking similarity to an ongoing series by Leong. An image of the Canale della Giudecca in Venice? The Canadian photographer had it, and from the same perspective as Leong’s. A cracking ice floe in Iceland? An Egyptian pyramid? A Japanese shrine? He had those, too, all cropped and composed in similar fashion.
Link: Did David Burdeny copy Sze Tsung Leong’s photographs? – latimes.com
via: Conscientious
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The Free-Appropriation Writer – NYTimes.com
The Free-Appropriation Writer
Copying passages from another author used to be an unforgivable sin. But remix culture is coming to literature.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/weekinreview/28kennedy.html?ref=weekinreview
After a blogger and fellow novelist announced that Ms. Hegemann had blended sizeable chunks of his own writing into hers, Ms. Hegemann, instead of following the plagiarism-gotcha script of contrition and retraction so familiar in recent years, announced that appropriating the passages from that book and other sources was her plan all along.
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Photoshop and Photography: When Is It Real? – Pogue's Posts
Photoshop and Photography: When Is It Real?
If you were running a photography contest, at what point would you draw the line and say “That’s not photography anymore?”
via Pogue’s Posts Blog: http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/photoshop-and-photography-when-is-it-real/
the editorial is about the magazine’s annual Reader’s Photos Contest. This year, in two of the categories, the winners were what the magazine calls composites, and what I call Photoshop jobs.
One photo shows a motorcyclist being chased by a tornado; another shows a flock of seagulls wheeling around a lighthouse in amazingly photogenic formation. Neither scene ever actually existed as photographed.
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Times Reporter Accused of Plagiarism Is Said to Resign – NYTimes.com
Times Business Reporter Accused of Plagiarism Is Said to Resign
The reporter, Zachery Kouwe, is said to have resigned at a meeting called to discuss possible disciplinary action, including dismissal.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/business/media/17times.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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PDNPulse: Copycat or Not, Part II: A Case of Nothing New Under the Sun?
Yesterday we posted a story about the similarities between a series of images called “Sacred & Secular” by Vancouver photographer David Burdeny, and a series called “Horizons” shot earlier by Sze Tsung Leong. Leong has reportedly challenged Burdeny for copying. Burdeny denies it, saying the similarities arose because he happened to shoot from some of the same tourist spots. And, he added, photographers–even famous ones–often mimic each other’s work. So why single out Burdeny?
Link: PDNPulse: Copycat or Not, Part II: A Case of Nothing New Under the Sun?
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photographylot: The World Press Photo Awards, Julie Jacobson and Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard
The World Press Photo Awards, Julie Jacobson and Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard
This years winners of the World Press Photo competition have recently been announced. You can see the winners gallery here . Once again, …
Link: http://photographylot.blogspot.com/2010/02/world-press-photo-awards-julie-jacobson.html
To those who think this picture is disrespectful, I say that perhaps you prefer it if we remembered him only as a statistic. I’m sorry but again I have to respectfully disagree. I have said it before and I’ll say it again, if I was a soldier killed in action, you can be damn sure I would want a photograph of my death plastered across the front page of every publication in the world.
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Ethics: Coach's Ground Rules Were Out of Bounds – The Digital Journalist
First, no live coverage of the event.
Second, no video recording of his initial remarks – only his final statement. Audio recording, and of course note-taking, were to be permitted throughout.
Third, no questions from the news media.
When reporters balked, Ford sternly reminded them, “You’re in our building – you know that. You’re in a university building.” The counter-argument that a university building is public property – and that Kiffin, at least until he quit, was a public employee – didn’t seem to have an effect on Ford.
Link: Ethics: Coach’s Ground Rules Were Out of Bounds – The Digital Journalist
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PDNPulse: Sculptors Plagiarize Image; What Should Photographer Do Next?
New York City-based photographer Alex Brown recently discovered that a pair of Glaswegian artists, Craig Little and Blake Whitehead, known as Littlewhitehead, had “appropriated” an image he made of a young boy in a Darth Vader mask sitting in a diner booth.
Link: PDNPulse: Sculptors Plagiarize Image; What Should Photographer Do Next?
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When does similar become too similar? – Conscientious
If you have been following this blog for a while you will remember this mosaic from one of my earlier posts, where I tried to tackle the problem of plagiarism. How can one decide when to cry foul? What is a good way to approach this complex? I’m not sure I have a better answer now than three and half years ago, but I’ve thought about it more; and it’s worthwhile to come back to this topic.
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What is the difference between a wild and a tame wolf? – Conscientious
The kerfuffle over the supposedly staged prize winning picture of a wolf is yet another reminder that there is a problem, but the more I think about it, the more I am convinced that the problem arises from how we view photography, from what we expect photographs to show or do. Here are some thoughts, which, incomplete as they might be, might lead to something.
Link: What is the difference between a wild and a tame wolf? – Conscientious
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PDNPulse: Prestigious Wildlife Photography Competition Sullied By Staged Image
The contest organizers say Rodriguez continues to claim the image was the result of months of work studying the wolf’s behavior, but nobody is buying it.
Link: PDNPulse: Prestigious Wildlife Photography Competition Sullied By Staged Image
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Photographer Stripped of Prestigious Wildlife Award for Cheating – PetaPixel
Photographer Stripped of Prestigious Wildlife Award for Cheating
About a month ago we reported that José Luis Rodriguez had come under fire after winning the prestigious Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer of the
After a month of investigation, Jose Luis Rodriguez has been stripped of the prestigious award and banned for life,
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NYT Distorts Image Of Christina Hendricks, Calls Her "Big" – Gothamist
NYT Distorts Image Of Christina Hendricks, Calls Her “Big”
Left: the NY Times image; Right: the original image By yesterday
via Gothamist: http://gothamist.com/2010/01/19/post_131.php
The NY Times has now replaced the image, saying: “The photo was slightly distorted inadvertently due to an error during routine processing.” Take that for what it’s worth.
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More Perspectives on Haiti and Crisis Journalism | dvafoto
Many of us have grown increasingly frustrated with the tactics and presentation of the broadcast media and a situation like this brings out the worst in that institution, insofar as them featuring these acts (performances?) in their broadcasts. I’ve been glancing at CNN’s website a few times since the disaster began and I’m almost certain that there has always been at least one self-congratulatory article or link about the good work (“Anderson Cooper saves injured boy”, “CNN vehicle drafted in rescue”) the broadcast team is doing down there.
Link: More Perspectives on Haiti and Crisis Journalism | dvafoto
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Thought Experiment #2 – Opinionator
Thought Experiment #2
A short quiz to follow a recent pair of essays on war photography.
via Opinionator: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/thought-experiment-2/
Changes in captions can radically alter how we see a photograph and what it means
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Is Elinor Carucci right to turn the camera on her children? | guardian.co.uk
Is Elinor Carucci right to turn the camera on her children?
Her intimate portraits of family life make for intriguing viewing, but raise unsettling questions about the dark side of photography
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jan/11/elinor-carucci-children-photography
Her intimate portraits of family life make for intriguing viewing, but raise unsettling questions about the dark side of photography
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It Was All Started By a Mouse (Part 1) – Opinionator
It Was All Started by a Mouse (Part 1)
A closer look at a child’s toy among bombed-out ruins, and at what it’s like photographing a war.
via Opinionator: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/it-was-all-started-by-a-mouse-part-1/
The implications may depend on our politics. Here is a child’s toy and the ruins of an apartment building. We know enough — “Israeli bombs slammed into a complex of buildings” — to infer (correctly or incorrectly) that Israeli forces targeted civilians. The Mickey Mouse photograph is not unique. A blog post, “The Passion of the Toys,” collected a number of wire service photographs taken in southern Lebanon. The sheer number of toys photographed seems to suggest that some of the images could have been staged.