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Subject: [Leica] Photoshopping for Truth? (and a sneaky real estate FS Friday)
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 22:20:03 +0530
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George,
You are right. The cover is always the magazine's lead editorial.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 10:17 PM, George Lottermoser <imagist3 at mac.com> 
wrote:
> Has anyone ever looked at The Economist before this week?
> The only point I have to make is that this publication has used artistic
> license on their covers for 150 years.
> Every visual cover they have produced has been a visual editorial comment.
> They have never, to my knowledge, produced a "news photo" cover
> (I'm sure a few exceptions can be found - but their rule is to "create" a
> compelling cover).
>
> In my personal opinion editorial cartoons, editorial illustrations, satire,
> and humor,
> produced by thoughtful, professional writers, illustrators, designers and
> photographers
> can get a lot closer to "truth" than simply documenting some rectangle
> chopped out of reality.
>
> The Economist has won awards over decades for their professional,
> editorializing cover designs.
> And for very good reason.
>
> It's just a damn picture surrounded by typography.
> and it lies no more or less than the full frame chopped out of time and
> space.
>
> Regards,
> George Lottermoser
> george at imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com
> http://www.imagist.com/blog
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 8, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
>
>> Quite a few others, mostly photojournalists, disagree.
>>
>>
>> http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/7/5/881784/-BUSTED:-The-Economist-Photoshops-Obama-To-Make-Him-Look-More-Depressed-And-Alone
>>
>>
>> <http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/7/5/881784/-BUSTED:-The-Economist-Photoshops-Obama-To-Make-Him-Look-More-Depressed-And-Alone>
>> Tina
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:39 AM, George Lottermoser
>> <imagist3 at mac.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Precisely the point.
>>>
>>> Editing with malicious intent to deceive and mislead
>>> and
>>> Editing with aesthetic and editorial intent to provide a strong cover
>>> design
>>> are two entirely different matters.
>>>
>>> On Jul 8, 2010, at 10:31 AM, Greg Lorenzo wrote:
>>>
>>>> I see Uncle Joe's murderous process as somehow quite different from an
>>>
>>> editor's decision to remove a couple of people on Obama's beach who
>>> themselves should have no concern that they in fact could disappear one
>>> day.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>> --
>> Tina Manley, ASMP
>> www.tinamanley.com
>>
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