Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 04:38 PM 9/14/99 -0400, phong wrote: >Does anybody know which issue this was ? Thanks in advance, Long time ago. In fact it was two covers that were modified. The pyramid of Giza was moved so the photo would fit better on the cover. No one ever criticizes the fact that the guy paid a camel driver to drive his camels back and forth several times in front of the pyramid, or used an amber gel, it just bothers them that they used a Scitex (which was in the map department, they didn't have their own digital imaging stuff at the time). The other photo was adding water to the top of a picture of a man carrying a sewing machine on his shoulder through flood waters of Bangladesh or Pakistan or somewhere in that area. National Geographic's reasoning at the time (which was flawed) was that the cover is advertising, and not content, so it didn't seem to them to be subject to the same ethical rules. They got such a backlash from the journalism community and public they were taken aback. They pledged it would never happen again. And as far as anyone knows, it hasn't. I got that from the horse's mouth. Rich Clarkson, former director of photography at National Geographic. Photographs could always be manipulated. Airbrushing has been around for decades. There is no less reason to trust photos now as then. It has always been the journalist you must trust, not the photograph. As the saying goes, the camera never lies, but photographers do. Eric Welch St. Joseph, MO http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch You'll get what's coming to you ... Unless mailed