When enhancement is deception: the ethics of photo manipulation
Article Abstract:
The ethical dilemmas of electronically manipulating photographs for news publications are becoming more widespread as major news organizations adopt photo re-touching systems and the general public has access to photo re-touching software. The credibility of photojournalism is threatened when people believe that the photos they see are unadulterated representations of specific, real scenes. Magazines such as National Geographic and Time utilize electronic photo manipulation techniques and receive public criticism for this. Other professionals feel that photography employs so many manipulative techniques such as lens distortions and selective framing that electronic systems do not make a significant moral difference. The Associated Press and The National Press Photographers Association have official statements regarding the use of electronic manipulation in journalism. One possible solution to ease ethical concerns is to alert readers of photo montages or photo illustrations with appropriate labeling.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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Fifth annual publish design awards
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The winners of the Fifth Annual Publish Design Contest created works that were playful, provocative and pushed the limits of the genre. The grand prize went to Rex Ray for 'Shift,' a bilingual magazine of art criticism that was created with an Apple Macintosh IIcx microcomputer, Aldus PageMaker 4.0 and Adobe Photoshop. First prize went Gil Livne for 'New Year's Seasons Card,' a New Year's and seasons card in poster form with a vellum overlay that was created with a Mac IIcx, Adobe's Illustrator 3.0 and Streamline 2.0. Second prize went to Tibor Kalman and Emily Oberman for 'Roarr: Calder's Circus.' Roarr is a museum book that exhibits the images of Alexander Calder's traveling sculpture circus. The book employs lively typography against black matte paper and was produced with a Mac IIfx, QuarkXPress 3.0, Aldus FreeHand 3.0 and Adobe Photoshop 2.0. Other winning pieces are discussed.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1992
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Your face on television
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Eastman Kodak Co (Rochester, NY) introduces the Photo CD compact disk-based digital storage system for storing, displaying and editing photographs. Photofinishers employing the Kodak technology will offer customers the choice of having some or all of a roll film stored on a blank Photo CD in addition to usual slides or prints. Each Photo CD will hold up to 100 images at a cost of about $20 for each 24 photographs. A microcomputer with an attached CA ROM XA drive can be used to view and edit the photographs. A special CD player will enable the photographs to be displayed on a television set. The commercial Photo CD photofinishing system will cost about $100,000 and includes a Sun Microsystems workstation and Kodak film scanner, image manipulation software and color thermal printer. The system and software development tools for applications developers will ship in 1992.
Publication Name: Publish
Subject: Publishing industry
ISSN: 0897-6007
Year: 1991
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