What we have here is photographer as witness and photograph as
testimony. Modifying the photograph to removing an element with
Photoshop even if it's just to make the image cleaner supposedly strikes
at the credibility of the witness. I also know from personal experience
that an editor can crop a photograph to completely change the story, or
ignore it entirely.
On 1/26/2014 2:25 PM, knarf wrote:
"Photographs aren't reality"?
Your going to have to define what you consider reality to be, Marnie.
The subject of a photo is real. (I'm talking about a "traditional" photograph
taken by a camera/lens onto a light-sensitive surface)
The photo itself is most certainly real. Even if it has been manipulated or
altered, it most certainly is a real, existing thing.
Perhaps what you meant is that a photo is not always (or even "ever") a completely
accurate portrayal of the subject? That certainly isn't the same as saying "photos aren't
reality", because they are.
It's fidelity to the photographed subject/event that's at issue.
It's snowing and quite beautiful out. I'm going to go take photos now. They
will be a representation/portrayal of reality, I assure you.
;-)
Cheers,
frank
[email protected] wrote:
Of course it is. Photographs aren't reality.
Cell phones and the fact everyone has cell phones with cameras now,
have
turned up quite a few police abuses in the news. Bystanders take
pictures.
With so MANY images out there now, a photojournalist is really taking a
crazy
risk altering a picture.
Photographers know how much "reality" can be altered just by what they
decide to include in the frame, even without Photoshopping, but that
isn't
really the issue.
EVERYONE knows about Photoshopping, we are all subjected to craftily
photographed ads all the time. News agencies SHOULD have different
standards, if
they didn't, propaganda would be too darn easy.
People need to trust they aren't being DELIBERATELY lied to. Or forget
new
agencies altogether and just assume/admit they are propaganda machines
like any other Madison Ave ad company.
Marnie
In a message dated 1/23/2014 7:49:38 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,
[email protected] writes:
The problem I see is that there's a basic assumption that the photons
entering the lens and recorded on the media somehow represent THE
TRUTH. I believe that assumption is flawed.
“Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel
--
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant, and the crazy,
crazier.
- H.L.Mencken
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