Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/11/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The seminal text is of course Chomsky and Herman's Manufacturing Consent. Although I'm not in any sense a news photographer, I think awareness of these issues is mandatory for anyone involved in photography at any level. - -- Rob http://www.robertappleby.com Mobile: (+39) 348 336 7990 Home: (+39) 0536 63001 All outgoing email scanned by Norton AntiVirus (TM) 2003 Professional Edition. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Appleby" <rob@robertappleby.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 8:16 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Journalism, altered photo's, and other ethical debates > I think in the conext of a sanitised presentation of an war of aggression, > that would count as unacceptable. > > -- Rob > > http://www.robertappleby.com > Mobile: (+39) 348 336 7990 > Home: (+39) 0536 63001 > > All outgoing email scanned by > Norton AntiVirus (TM) 2003 Professional Edition. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Eric Welch" <eric@jphotog.com> > To: "Leicalist" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 7:12 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Journalism, altered photo's, and other ethical debates > > > > on 11/6/03 9:32 PM, Phong at phong@doan-ltd.com wrote: > > > > > Speaking of cropping, a few months ago there was > > > a photo of bombing victims in Iraq where you see > > > a older man carrying in his arms a girl who appears > > > unconcious or dead. All the copies in the US that > > > I saw of the photo had it cropped so that you don't > > > see that her leg(s) were blown away and she was > > > completely maimed. Cropping in this case would > > > appear "dishonest". > > > > How do you know it was cropped? Did you see her maimed legs in non-US > > publications? Editors tend to go with their reader's tastes. It's hardly > > dishonest to crop. It's editorial judgment. The act of photographing as > has > > been said here, is selectively cropping from real life anyway. If the > point > > of the photo was her legs, then maybe it wasn't a good decision to crop, > but > > it's hardly dishonest because readers understand there is a world outside > > the borders of the photo. > > > > Eric Welch > > Carlsbad, CA > > http://www.jphotog.com > > > > "Where books are burned in the end people will burned, too." Heinrich > Heine > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html