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| Danielle Kiefer and Samantha Kaplan |
Yesterday, I visited the Newseum in Washington, D.C. They had tons of really cool exhibits about all aspects of journalism, including ones on broadcast journalism, ethnicities in the newsroom, 9/11 and many more. One in particular that I found interesting was called "Pictures of the Year" and featured award-winning news images from Pictures of the Year International. The photos were all so amazing, and it really got me to think about how important pictures are to journalism. They not only entice the reader to read the article, but photographs can capture things in ways that words may not be able to.
I think this also relates to the article we read for class about distorting photos in journalism. What did you guys think of this article? How does changing images with tools like Photoshop challenge the ethics of photojournalism?
--Danielle Kiefer
1 comment:
I think the article was interesting how easily people were manipulating pictures. I think the act is completely dishonest and a terrible. It discredits the photographer and ruins the whole company's reputation.
I don't know why a photographer would photo shop one of his one pictures. They'd have to know that there would've been consequences if they got caught. I know that Allan Detrich only wanted to edit the picture for his own viewing but I don't understand why he would want to do that. The situation with the 50 reporters who said they'd probably worked with peers who edited photos shows how bad the situation was and still is.
I believe that photo editing can cause the public to lose faith in the credibility of photos. And as the article says "without credibility, we have nothing; we cannot survive." If people continue to edit photos people won't believe that the photos they receive are genuine and this could cause them to stop investing in them in all which would hurt business. That's why when the article talks about how simple it is to fake pictures I believe that photo journalism has a bleak future. The fact that the technology to manipulate photos is improving is endangering this branch of reporting. When the article explained how pictures will become illustrations and not reporting because we can't tell if their real and fake, I realized how bad we've gotten with photo editing. I admire developers who are countering this with making software that detects changes to photos. I believe that it will be a difficult job for them but with hard work I think that they will bring justice to photo journalism and restore the credibility of their material.
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