[Leica] Altered Photo

[imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)]

The "golf" photo alteration does not offend me either.
Personally - I have a "who cares?" reaction to it;
and I do most other celebrity lies; whether sports, hollywood, etc.

However if this photographer submitted the altered photograph
as a news document of the event,
to a sports or news publication,
without informing the editors of the alteration,
he definitely slipped down the slope;
by intentionally deceiving his editors and publishers.

Regards,
George Lottermoser 
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
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On Jul 20, 2010, at 10:21 AM, Ric Carter wrote:

> PS
> 
> the alteration does not offend me in the least
> 
> ric
> 
> 
> On Jul 20, 2010, at 11:19 AM, Ric Carter wrote:
> 
>> "In adherence with our zero tolerance policy on photo manipulation"
>> 
>> It's living in a fool's paradise or lying to the clientele or having NO 
>> concept of what photos are
>> 
>> But, we've had this discussion many times without conclusion -- mot 
>> recently with an identical problem--someone removed from the picture
>> 
>> It's all about some phoney concept of reality that does not in reality 
>> exist
>> 
>> they're pictures, not reality, but impressions of it rendered by people 
>> with opinions
>> 
>> The only way to avoid that is to place the viewer at the point of action, 
>> in which case you don't need the photographer
>> 
>> ric
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
>> On Jul 20, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Tina Manley wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> So where do you draw the line?
>>> 
>>> http://pdnedu.blogs.com/pdn_pulse/2010/07/getty-photographer-fired-over-altered-golf-photo.html
>> 
>> 
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