Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'd be much more concerned with the integrity and honesty of those who own the news media outlets. Besides, there is nothing done today which wasn't done in all those yesterdays. Something else as well, when is the last time you heard of a publisher or CEO getting shot in a war zone? :-P Walt John Sluss wrote: > Any comment on the integrity and honesty of the photographer? Maybe > all news photographers should go back to film and transmit the > negatives to the newspaper? Is it time to look at all photographs > coming out of a war zone as questionable, to be looked at with a > jaundiced eye? > > Just a couple of thoughts. > > John > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com> > To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org> > Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 11:13 AM > Subject: Re: [Leica] Another Altered Photo > > >> I'm sure those in the unaltered photo were much happier being bombed >> in low contrast. As I mentioned before, look at Christopher >> Anderson's work http://www.magnumphotos.com/c/ on the Magnum site. >> Anderson, a Canadian, should be relatively objective. His work seems >> to be straightforward and for him, a very risky business. Wonder what >> rationale Limbaugh would use prove Anderson's images fake? Perhaps he >> could call on Westmoreland's PR expert who stated Nick Ut faked it >> with his napalm shot. I've heard tales David Turnley missed the shot >> loading an M3 but that Ut was also using a Leica? >> >> Walt >> >> Gregory Rubenstein wrote: >> >>> >>> Reuters has canned a photographer in Beirut for altering a photo, >>> according to an article at the following link from MSNBC. >>> >>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13165165/ >>> >>> This includes the photo, altered and unaltered, as well as Reuter's >>> story. >>> >>> Greg Rubenstein >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >