Just viewed a Netflix series of great producer/director staging of scenes in
war II movies shot at government request.
As John states nothing new here.
Kenneth Waller
http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/kennethwaller
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Northeast" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Controversy around McCurry
Are McCurry's efforts as bad as this one?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/030409.htm
Philip Northeast
www.aviewfinderdarkly.com.au
On 6/4/17 1:26 pm, John Sessoms wrote:
Doesn't seem to me any of the images he's accused of manipulating were
represented as "photojournalism". His photos that were represented as
"photojournalism" were not manipulated.
The Afghan girl's photo was not manipulated when originally published in
National Geographic. That he might want to clean it up subsequently when
selling it as a poster doesn't bother me.
One could reasonably argue that all travel portraits, including the
Afghan girl are "staged".
I think the kind of "staging" he's being accused of has been common
practice from the invention of photography. It really wasn't an issue
back in film days. Seems to me it only became an issue when digital made
fakery possible for the average snap-shooter. The porter is actually
standing there with the suitcases on his head. Whether they were full or
empty at the time is to me beside the point.
Much ado about nothing ... or at least about very little.
On 4/5/2017 21:17, Igor PDML-StR wrote:
This was happening last year, but I didn't see it.
As far as I can tell, it was not discussed here. So, for those, who like
myself missed it completely.
Apparently, people discovered quite a few digital manipulations as well
as "staging" of the photos by Steve McCurry.
https://petapixel.com/2016/06/07/eyes-afghan-girl-critical-take-steve-mccurry-scandal/
(and links therein)
Enjoy!
Igor
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