photographer vs Newsweek
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- pr20
I hate Chaney more then i do pizza and yet i still stand by that photographer's POV.
- CyBrain0
they could have used another shot, but didn't it occur to the photographer that they were going to have to crop that photo to fit the vertical format anyway?
- colin_s0
as someone with a master's degree in photojournalism, i'd say i'm partial to the photographer's POV here. not only does he have a valid point, but it's against journalistic standards to really do what newsweek did. it is blatant editorializing and using the picture out of context like that is pretty lame.
however, this shit happens all the time. it's not the photographer's fault, and this has nothing to do with rights and licensing. it's an editorial board decision, and a shitty one.
- At one point in time, the former VP was cutting a steak. This was photographed, sold and then printed. That is the result of the picture taken.luckyorphan
- ...picture taken. This is like a knife maker complaining that one of their products was used to kill someone.luckyorphan
- luckyorphan0
Kennerly is a crybaby.
Photojournalists are not photo editors. If he wanted to control how his image is used, he should have either stipulated total control in his contract. But since he didn't, he should have accepted the fact that once he was paid for it, and it left his hands, it was out of his control.
A photojournalist is a conduit between an event, and the public who was not on the scene themselves. In this case, the event happened, he took a picture of it, and sold it.
To wrap it up, what should we infer from his choice of angle and selection of the image to capture? Why did he not capture just Cheney at the cutting board, instead of the entire room? Perhaps he's a republican?
Please.
- GeorgesII0
He's scared because he's going to get shot in the face.
- sikma0
"However, Newsweek’s objective in running the cropped version was to illustrate its editorial point of view, which could only have been done by shifting the content of the image so that readers just saw what the editors wanted them to see. This radical alteration is photo fakery. Newsweek’s choice to run my picture as a political cartoon not only embarrassed and humiliated me and ridiculed the subject of the picture, but it ultimately denigrated my profession."
He sounds like a first year art student on his first assignment. What was he expecting Newsweek was going to saw about the guy? That he's a saint? For someone who's been in the industry for over 25 years this is an odd fight to pick.
Further more the shot is crap to begin with. Looks like something my aunt would've taken.
- bolus0
without getting into rights issues, that image, which was only half decent to start with, was pretty poorly cropped.....
and I can see the photographers point, though I'm not sure what his legal position would be
- ribit0
depends entirely on the contract
- sea_sea0
i agree with the photographers point, but is there a way to prevent any butchering of your image from happening? he did get paid for that image, does he lose all his rights once he does that?
- freitag
without getting political, as this is about an editorial decision, which in my opinion, was rightly criticized by the photographer.
Essay: Chop and Crop
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/20…