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Subject: [Leica] Sunday NYT Cuba photos — WTF?
From: gerry.walden at icloud.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 07:32:54 +0000
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I don?t know the NYT at all, but is it possible the photographer is a 
staffer who has signed the copyright over to them in some way?

Gerry

> On 21 Mar 2016, at 01:33, chris williams <zoeica at mac.com> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
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