Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/03/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]AP sometimes doesn't credit the photographer. I have a friend who works at the Times so I can ask him. Chris Williams www.zoeicaimages.net 504-231-6261 > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information