On Sep 26, 2009, at 2:17 PM, Anthony Farr wrote:
The photographer didn't crop it. The magazine did, and the
photographer was
displeased.
That's a semantic juggle. Unless the view is an immersive 360 degrees
in all planes, the photographer ALWAYS selects the field of view as a
portion of the entire reality. He/she is no more innocent than the
editors who continued the act of cropping that the photographer began.
The photographer accurately portrayed the event that was taking place
in the room. The magazine cropped it in such a way that its message
was altered. That's not a semantic juggle. It's fact.
regards, Anthony
"Of what use is lens and light
to those who lack in mind and sight"
(Anon)
2009/9/27 paul stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net>:
On Sep 26, 2009, at 2:01 PM, Anthony Farr wrote:
The "uncropped" frame was still a selective view, one that the
photographer cropped from the scene as it occurred. We can't be
certain that the context of the uncropped picture was faithful to
the
actual event, so why should we be worried by the editorial crop?
The photographer didn't crop it. The magazine did, and the
photographer was
displeased.
It was a boring picture of a bunch of people including Dick Cheney.
It became a boring picture of DIck Cheney, who AFAIAC is the only
notable person in the scene. Nothing remarkable was happening
before
the crop, and nothing sinister was falsely implied by the cropping.
Not true. Rather than a picture of a luncheon, it was turned into a
picture
of Cheney carving something that appeared to be bloody. It was
clearly
editorializing. Not surprising, coming from Newsweek, which
frequently seems
to have an agenda.
There are things in the world to worry about that are genuinely
evil,
this isn't one of them.
regards, Anthony
"Of what use is lens and light
to those who lack in mind and sight"
(Anon)
2009/9/27 Tim Bray <tb...@textuality.com>:
Is it OK to crop a picture to make an editorial point? The
answer's
not obvious. See
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/09/the-ethics-of-photocropping.html
-T
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