[Leica] Sunday NYT Cuba photos — WTF?

[chris williams]

AP sometimes doesn't credit the photographer. 

I have a friend who works at the Times so I can ask him.



Chris Williams
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> On Mar 20, 2016, at 9:29 PM, Howard Ritter <hlritter at bex.net> wrote:
> 
> Today’s New York Times has a cover story on President Obama’s visit to Cuba. It’s accompanied by a p. 1 color photo of a Havana barbershop, occupying 5 columns and most of the space above the fold. On p. 8 are six more. 
> 
> I immediately thought of Tina, although I didn’t suppose that they were hers, being presumably more or less current photos. What surprised me was the credit lines. The p. 1 photo was credited to “The New York Times”. The p. 8 credit was “Photographs By The New York Times”.
> 
> Aside from the amusing mental picture of a newspaper carrying a camera and prowling the streets of Havana looking for human interest tableaux, I was nonplussed by the lack of attribution in any case, but especially for a spread of seven photos starting on Page One. When, and why, did it become acceptable at the NYT to publish photos without attribution? 
> 
> Photos elsewhere in the paper are properly attributed. Would there have been some danger to the photographer? There seemed nothing offensive to the regime about the images.
> 
> Anyone?
> 
> —howard
> 
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