how come they never did it?

bribrius

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passed the law to put a crossed out camera on manipulated printed images? Did they pass something else instead for editorial at least?

Every Picture Can Tell a Lie
 
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bribrius - The Mirror is a British tabloid. It is similar to our tabloids, The Star and The National Enquirer. All these tabloids are purely for entertainment not news ... and accuracy is not part of their culture.
 
The article also talks about the New York Post, another tabloid in the tabloid tradition of entertainment. The Post ran the famous front page headline of "HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR".

The New York Daily News is a competitor to the New York Post.

The photo manipulations described in the article would not have occurred in "legit' news organizations without serious repercussions for the transgressor. In non-legit news organizations (ala The Mirror, New York Post, et al), not only does inaccurate photo manipulations occur, they are encouraged by management.

Gary
 
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Wired is dumb. Although that might be the least dumb thing I've ever read on Wired.
 
The article does make the point that you can lie with a crop or any number of 'permitted' methods. Where it drops the ball is in failing to note that this makes Photoshop irrelevant.

The only reason they had to shop in the impending kiss is that the paparazzi with the long lens didn't get it. There were probably a dozen real moments that afternoon which could have been misread as a prelude to a kiss.

Ultimately the news organization is either honest or not. Even that is generally a matter of degree and shades of grey.

The pompous 'we allow cropping but not shopping' is a facade to create the impression of trustworthiness. Do you print a prelude to a kiss photo - however obtained - when no kissing occurred, our do you not?
 
thanks for the explanation :bek113: guys. so i guess the moral of the story is only follow legit new organizations.
 
ansel adams, wildlife photography and photo manipulation ethics for your consideration if you so choose. I have been kind of pondering photo manipulation and editing beginnings as it pertains to documentary photography as you might have guessed. Long read but fairly interesting with a lot of renowned names in it.

Photography in the Age of Falsification - The Atlantic


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"EARLY in its history photography was dismissed as a lesser art, or as no art at all. A photograph, critics said, was just a record of the external moment -- a critique that the medium has never entirely escaped. Well into this century photographers found themselves apologetic about their work, and many were drawn to the abnegation of pictorialism. The Pictorialists produced blurred, symbolic, "poetic" prints in an effort to be painterly. The style was in vogue until the 1930s, with intermittent reinventions afterward. In 1932 a group of seven West Coast photographers, among them Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Edward Weston, found themselves united in their distaste for the vapid ethic and misty look of pictorialism. One evening in Berkeley, at the house of a member of the group, Willard Van Dyke, the seven debated what they should call themselves. An eighth photographer, a visiting neophyte named Preston Holder, suggested "US 256," which was then a designation for one of the smaller lens stops -- a constricted aperture allowing for the clarity and depth of field favored by the group. Adams worried that as US 256 they might be mistaken for a federal highway, but he liked Holder's drift; he picked up a pencil and sketched out "f/ 64." The aperture f/ 64 corresponded to US 256 in a new marking system just introduced. The seven photographers liked the graphic elegance of the name -- the flourish of the long descender on the f Adams drew. They became Group f/ 64. The members believed in straight photography, in "pure" photography -- in what Adams called "clear images, smooth honest papers, and ... the complete absence of affected imitation of other art forms." They held their first shows, and the public quickly saw, with f/ 64 clarity, that the group of seven had found a better path. Pictorialism withered, and straight photography flourished."
 
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f/64 was actually a bit late to the party, but we're either influential in promoting straight photography, or possibly just had really great PR. Still, they're very much associated with the rise of straight photography.
 
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