dvafoto says:
The photo was removed from the Times website, but since the initial report of the ethical breach, the photographer’s identity was ferreted out, as was the photo in question. PDNPulse’s report included this line to readers, “Do you think this is over the line?” and others online have argued that this isn’t a big issue. This is wrong.
NYTimes.com says:
What if, Justice Potter Stewart asked a lawyer for The New York Times in the Pentagon Papers case in 1971, a disclosure of sensitive information in wartime “would result in the sentencing to death of 100 young men whose only offense had been that they were 19 years old and had low draft numbers?” The Times’s lawyer, Alexander M. Bickel, tried to duck the question, but the justice pressed him:
“You would say that the Constitution requires that it be published and that these men die?”
From Perfesser Kev:
A letter written to my students of the time, a couple weeks after the Columbine shootings:
May 4, 1999
Dear students,
Two weeks ago a horde descended upon Clement Park to cover the massacre at Columbine High School. There bereaved families and students found themselves face-to-face with more camera operators than I have seen anywhere, and that collision created a perfect laboratory for us to look at ourselves, the job we do and how the public reacts to our work.
From Mostly True:
it doesn’t take long before these photographers stop even trying to make good pictures and just concentrate on the crap their editors want.
From Gotcha TV – Fox News Crews Stalk Bill O’Reilly’s Targets – NYTimes.com:
Mr. Hoyt, one of more than 50 people that Mr. O’Reilly’s young producers have confronted in the past three years, said the interviews were “really just an attempt to make you look bad.” In almost every case Mr. O’Reilly uses the aggressive interviews to campaign for his point of view.
Jesse Epstein interviews retouchers and talks about, among other things, the French government’s desire to mandate the disclosure of image manipulation.
From The Guardian:
As well as the photo being sepia, there appears to be a subtle soft pink hue on Madonna herself. I guess this is the colour of reassuring, concerned maternity. You can imagine Madonna and her team thinking this through in the same way an advertising campaign is orchestrated.
From Danish Photoshop Debate Leads To Disqualification:
Ethical questions surrounding photojournalists’ use of Photoshop in image processing is not a controversy confined to the American market. Currently the embroilment rages in Denmark, where at least one photojournalist has been disqualified from a contest because it’s been determined that his image manipulation went too far.
From Picking Battles « Perfesser Kev:
Late last week a story from the U.K. revealed a point where photojournalism balances between public service, free speech, national security and intense journalism competition.
Robert Quick, the U.K.’s most powerful counter-terrorism officer, resigned after being photographed as he stepped from a car at 10 Downing Street, holding secret documents in plain sight.
From the Telegraph:
Steve Back, the photographer who took the picture of Bob Quick’s briefing note on the terror raids in the north west of England, has embarrassed the Government before.
I came across this photograph here in The Guardian. I am deeply ambivalent about it. On the one hand I can nearly feel the burden of pain and sadness reflected in Neeson’s posture. I recognized the feelings immediately. On the other hand, what the hell was the photographer Mike Groll doing there? When my son Jeff died, his older brother (then 17) nearly punched news reporters who’d camped out at his mother’s house. Yes it is the photographer’s job. But there are jobs one might turn down, right?
The National Press Photographers Association has announced that Andrea Bruce of the Washington Post has been awarded second place in the International News Story with her photo essay on a young girl in Kurdistan being circumcised.
Readers of this blog will recall reading the reasons for my revulsion at this photo essay
A producer for the ABC News program “Good Morning America” reportedly put Caylee Anthony’s grandparents up in an expensive hotel in December 2008, about the time that the child’s remains were discovered and the search for the missing child turned into a murder investigation.
We support an aggressive press and TMZ is probably within its First Ammendment rights. But we can’t think of any justification for publishing this photo.
It appears that Mexico has its very own Mark Seliger… well, they have a photographer who bought Mark’s Physiognomy book and tried to knock-off many of the setups for Mexican television company Televisa’s book featuring their on-air talent. The photos were taken by Gabriel Saavedra.
go to MyInauguralPhoto.com, powered by online photo editing software provider FotoFlexer, and pretend you were there, right behind the new president of the United States as he was sworn in.
Photo and caption by Shibnath Basu, India.
CLICK NOTE: I found a lot of these winners to appear highly ‘Shopped. Can someone please explain to me how the clouds in this National Geographic International Photography Contest winning photograph are true reflections? Sure looks like a hideous photoshop job to me.
These shallow waters are mainly famous for flamingos at Nal Sarovar near Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The picture shows the reflection of clouds on water.
