Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/08/07

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Subject: [Leica] Another Altered Photo
From: jsluss at hughes.net (John Sluss)
Date: Mon Aug 7 10:41:10 2006
References: <BAY103-F40245114A1D947471575108B570@phx.gbl> <44D7587C.5040607@waltjohnson.com><005c01c6ba3b$b878a930$0200a8c0@johno7nl6vzhya> <44D76B64.5060503@waltjohnson.com><008401c6ba40$70769250$0200a8c0@johno7nl6vzhya> <44D77485.4000206@waltjohnson.com>

Seems like this gentelman that altered the photograph was making an 
editorial comment, or perhaps propaganda. His photograph should have been on 
the editoral page.

John


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 1:12 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Another Altered Photo


> faking never should be....burning and dodging was never called faking. :-[
>
> John Sluss wrote:
>
>> I agree with you about the news media outlets. But who took the photo and 
>> submitted it. I agree it has been done for years, but does that make it 
>> an acceptable practice?
>>
>> John
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Walt Johnson" <walt@waltjohnson.com>
>> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
>> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 12:33 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Another Altered Photo
>>
>>
>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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