Faked Photographs – Look, and Then Look Again – NYTimes.com:
It didn’t take long for schemers to discover that with a little skill and imagination, photographic realism could be used to create manufactured realities.
Category: Ethics
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Faked Photographs – Look, and Then Look Again
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IEEE Spectrum: Seeing Is Not Believing
IEEE Spectrum: Seeing Is Not Believing:
Just days after Sarah Palin’s selection last August as the Republican vice presidential candidate, a photo of a bikini-clad, gun-toting Palin blitzed across the Internet. Almost as quickly, it was revealed as a hoax—a crude bit of Photoshop manipulation created by splicing an image of the Alaska governor’s head onto someone else’s body. From start to finish, the doctoring probably took no more than 15 minutes.
via Conscientious
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Pictures That Please Us
Pictures That Please Us: Lucy’s Blog: Self.com:
Last Friday, the Internet was abuzz with the fact that I answered the question, did you Photoshop the September issue cover photo of Kelly Clarkson? with the answer: Yes. Of course we do retouching (though it’s technically not Photoshop, but that is semantics). We correct color and other aspects of the digital pictures we take and then publish the best version we can. Here is what I have to add to this conversation
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PDNPulse: Edgar Martins Regrets "Confusion" Over NYT Magazine Photos
PDNPulse: Edgar Martins Regrets “Confusion” Over NYT Magazine Photos:
Last month, The New York Times Magazine withdrew a photo story by photographer Edgar Martins after it became apparent that Martins had digitally manipulated the images. Martins has now responded to the controversy with a 2,900-word essay (plus footnotes) published on his Web site.
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The most important questions in the NYT vs. Edgar Martins case not answered
The most important questions in the NYT vs. Edgar Martins case not answered – Conscientious:
most people noted that Martins’ piece did not address what is seen as the most important question, namely why he told everybody he was not manipulating his images (even pre-Times) when, in fact, he did. If you want to know, you’re in good company: I want to know, too.
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How can I believe what I see, when the truth is a show?
How can I believe what I see, when the truth is a show?:
Finally, now that Edgar Martins has been exposed as a liar, why would he then continue to treat us like idiots by offering a load of pompous drivel instead of a frank and honest explanation? I find the whole sequence of events baffling, particularly as it could have been so easily avoided.
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Behind the Scenes: Edgar Martins Speaks
Behind the Scenes: Edgar Martins Speaks – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com:
Edgar Martins is a freelance photographer whose picture essay in The Times Magazine on July 5 and an accompanying slide show on NYTimes.com, “Ruins of the Second Gilded Age,” were found to include digital alterations — contrary to the stipulations of his contract and his stated, repeated assertions to the writer, editors and fact checker at the magazine. This week, Mr. Martins released an essay, “How Can I See What I See, Until I Know What I Know?” It constitutes his response to the controversy that has arisen.
He also annotated five photographs from the “Ruins” series, which encompasses more work than appeared in The Times. (Of those seen here, only the picture from Greenwich, Conn., was published.) In the quoted descriptions below, Mr. Martins discusses publicly — and more specifically than he has before — some methods he used and why he employed them.
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What is the role of the blog
What is the role of the blog words on photography:
What really got my hackles up was rather sophomoric post by Mr. Colberg today about what a photograph is as it compares to a photo-illustration. This post showed me that he is swimming in unfamiliar waters. He could have easily referenced the Reuters handbook on what is accepted digital processing. It is very clear, probably too clear for Mr. Colberg.
The lack of an ability to comment on this post directly, save for emailing him, also gets to me. How is this really a discussion in this day and age in the blogosphere? I am not always a fan of comments, but in this case, I wish they were there.
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When do photographs become photo illustrations?
When do photographs become photo illustrations? – Conscientious:
It has become fairly obvious that lately that our understanding of what photography is and does has not quite caught up with, well, what it is and does. A wonderful case in point is the attempt to differentiate between “photographs” and “photo illustrations”. What is the difference? When does a photograph become a “photo illustration”? If you think the answer is so simple keep reading. I don’t think it is.
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Death In The Making … For The Last Damned Time
Death In The Making … For The Last Damned Time – News Photographer Magazine:
And so why do we care so? For one thing, this is the photograph that made Robert Capa, more even than in the usual figurative sense, because Robert Capa had only just been created by the young Hungarian photographer André Friedmann shortly before. From then on, Friedmann would be gone, to the point, as his Life editor John G. Morris told me, of being called Capa by his friends and even his mother in later years.
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The truth is rarely so black and white
The truth is rarely so black and white | Euan Ferguson | The Observer:
Even if he acted from the best of motives, what Robert Capa did now seems indefensible
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Photographers speak out on Edgar Martins
Photographers speak out on Edgar Martins – Conscientious:
While I am waiting for further clarifications from Edgar Martins on the NY Times Magazine kerfuffle (don’t worry, they will come), Alan Rapp (a photography and architecture book editor – who, for example, edited the BLDGBLOG book) talked to four architectural photographers about the complex.
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Washington Post’s Publisher and Editor Criticized for ‘Ethical Lapse’
Washington Post’s Publisher and Editor Criticized for ‘Ethical Lapse’ – NYTimes.com:
The ombudsman also revealed in his column that other top editors who knew of the plan did not raise ethical concerns. Mr. Brauchli forwarded Mr. Pelton’s e-mail message to his top three lieutenants; one questioned using the publisher’s house and promising a specific reporter’s participation, but none challenged the overall concept. On June 24, Mr. Pelton made a brief presentation to about 200 Post managers, telling them the events would be off the record.
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NYTimes Magazine Pulls Photo Essay After Questions Of Digital Alteration Are Raised
A Photo Editor – NYTimes Magazine Pulls Photo Essay After Questions Of Digital Alteration Are Raised:
The New York Times commissioned Portuguese photographer Edgar Martins to travel around the United States and take photographs of abandoned construction projects left in the wake of the housing and securities market collapse. They pulled the online piece (here) after questions were raised over on Metafilter (here). Initially everyone was happily debating the economy and then suddenly someone commented “I call bullshit on this not being photoshopped” and everyone suddenly started debating the veracity of the images.
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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 to a photo the North Korean government had said was taken April 25.
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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 photojournalism.
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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?
