I can't agree with you. I know that pictures have ever been manipulated, people have even been cut out of images because of political reasons. But does that give as a carte blanche to manipulate pictures without telling anybody about it?
I give you a practical example. A few years ago htere was a terroristic incident in luxor, egypt, where many people died. There were a lot of pictures. One of them showed the plaxe and a puddle of blood. So thought we. In real, it was an ordinary puddle of water, but some guy made it look a little more redish. Some newspaper printed the picture. It was a big scandal. I would say, in a journalistic environment, that wasn't OK. I think you would agree. But were is the borderline? I'm more tolerant, if a picture is declared as "art". If anybody can see it was manipulated. But, if you shoot a picture for national geografic magazine - you can't tinker around. Michael -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Montag, 24. Januar 2005 12:11 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: Dogmatism: what is allowed? Answers below: > fra: "Michael Heim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Now that we are speaking about "looking away" and "do's & don'ts". > Lets get ethical: Should photographers make a declaration when having > manipulated (i mean: worked hard in photoshop) a picture? No. Any photograph is already manipulated, from the moment you choose what to photograph and how. > Examples: > - adding grain digitally ;-) > - putting objects in or taking them out of a picture > - changing colours (with digital colour filters) > - cutting pimpels out of faces These are things that were done in the darkroom a hundred years ago. Photoshop makes no difference. > Does it make a difference if the photos are for > - newspapers > - magazines > - a photo exhibition? Only if the tekst say something that isn't true. If a journalist or artist claims that an altered photograph shows something that is true, he is telling a lie. The photograph just shows something, it is the context that matters. We should never believe photographs, because they are so easy to believe in but lie so easily. DagT
