Talk about Truth or Dare……
While tripping around the web, I ran into this interesting article, worthy of a read, and more than that, a discussion on the FORUM.
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30 Jan 2007 REUTERS/Susana Vera
The article comes from Reuters news agency and opens the door to many issues.
Click here for the full article.
It was started like this:
“Reuters.com asked Gary Hershorn, News Pictures Editor for North America, to discuss some of the tools photojournalists have used in the past — and what they use now — to produce pictures. On Monday, Reuters withdrew all 920 photographs by a freelance Lebanese photographer from its database after a review showed he had altered two images”
“News photographers routinely process images using Adobe Photoshop software. But there has been a basic premise in the world of photojournalism that what was allowed in making prints in the pre-digital days of darkrooms is all that is acceptable today.”
In past articles we’ve discussed the rights of the street photographer. Now we all have seen the manipulated photos in the press of celebs.
Do you know when you are seeing unmanipulated photos purporting to be fact ?
It’s a huge question which we can possibly only answer by our own morale compass.
It does raise the issue: as a writer puts forward their interpretation of the scene, does a photojournalist have the same tools available? Is that freedom of speech or freedom of interpretation.
This can continue on the FORUM.
Now in NO WAY are we inferring that the image at the head of this article had any work done other than perhaps sharpening and color enrichment.
But this may make you think a bit about the news you read. And look at.
It’s Wednesday all right.
Cheers!
Damon Webster
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I really have to comment on a book that is quite unbelievable.
Life has been a car wreck and it slowed up my typing for a while. Do not bond your family with a double rollover.Well at least the family was off to go photographing. Guarding my camera is probably why I didn’t get hurt more….no, not the Camera.
The book I wish to comment on is a unbelievable book by Bruce Davidson. It is called East 100th Street. Mr. Davidson went to the Ghetto in New York and lived among the residence for two years. When you look at the photographs he has taken you understand why in a flood or fire people will grab their pets, and photograph albums. It is heart rendering. You see the pain and passion of the people.
There is a reason black and white photography never goes out of appreciation. East Harlem through the eyes of a camera lens pre 1970`
It will rip your heart out with what you see between the pages@
Damon Webster never ceases to asstound his friends