Cropping Netanyahu

Great catch.

Huffington Post crop crap.

How would you have cropped the picture?







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On The Reuters Fauxtography

Got a comment in at The Lede at the NYTimes.



And another on the theme of the New Crusaders.


And another blog comment there on the blockade.


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Reuters Caught Out

See the knife?





The story.

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UPDATE

NYTimes ignores the editing story.

Part 2 of that Mickey Mouse Fauxtography Piece

Part I was yesterday and my comment is here.


Here now is Part II.

Random Means - What?

From a new series on photojournalism and fauxtography by Eroll Morris, It Was All Started by A Mouse, I selected this quotation:

...It [the war in Lebanon 2006] was a very unusual conflict, at least from my experience. I covered the Liberian civil war in West Africa, and you couldn’t get more different. In the whole of Lebanon, I don’t think I even heard a shot fired. There was very little shooting. There was no small-arms fire. There was nobody firing guns — I’m talking about the places media could get to. It was all from the air. You think of a war and you think of soldiers firing at each other. Nobody was using small arms around us. You’d walk around and all you could hear was this “bzzz” of the drones in the sky — these unmanned aircraft. It tells you that someone’s watching you, that you are being seen from the sky. And then you’re walking around and, suddenly, some huge bomb takes out an apartment block. It’s random. I’m not suggesting at all the Israelis dropped the bombs randomly. They obviously had targeting and intelligence about where they were putting them. But from a journalist’s perspective on the ground, it was random as to when it was going to happen. You couldn’t predict it.

And I left a comment on the matter of proportional response.

What will the next parts deal with?

On Fauxtography

My suspicions about some Gaza photos are dealt with over at Stinky Journalism.

Not Quite Fauxtography But Staged?

Staged?





Surrounded by mountains of rubble that were once their homes, Palestinian children play in Jebaliya, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009. Psychologists say the fighting traumatized Gaza's children like none of the previous conflicts with Israel because it taught them that no place is safe.
(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)



Saja Abed Rabbo, 5, stands amid the rubble of her devastated neighborhood in Jebaliya, northern gaza Strip, Jan. 25, 2009, talking to Gaza trauma counselor Mustafa Haj-Ahmed. The little girl, along with her family, fled under fire during the first days of Israel's ground offensive. Psychologists say Israel's war on Hamas inflicted unprecedented trauma on Gaza's children because it taught them that no place is safe.
(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

And notice what she has in her hand:



A Palestinian woman films destroyed houses with a small video camera in east Jebaliya, northern Gaza strip, Sunday, Jan. 25, 2009 as a Palestinian flag flies atop debris.
(AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Reverse Fauxtography

Chanukah came late to Gaza this year:



but everything seems to be burning bright.

Fauxtography al la World War II

New truth revealed about famous WWII Reichstag photo

...new details have been released about the picture, according to weekly news magazine Der Spiegel.

Photographer Yevgeny Khaldei took the photo shortly after the Red Army marched into central Berlin and flew the negatives to Moscow.

It was only when he started to develop them that he realized that one of the three Soviet soldiers on the roof was wearing two watches, one on each wrist – a clear sign of looting which did not fit with the heroic image of the army.

He scratched the second watch from the negative and it was printed as week later in an illustrated magazine.

Later, in alternations already known, Khaldei added more clouds of smoke in the background and even substituted the original flag with a large one filled with wind.

Fauxtography by the New York Times

This picture, taken by Mohamad Torokman of Reuters appears in today's NYTimes above the caption: "A Palestinian woman fled Tuesday from an Israeli military raid in Zababida in the West Bank".



I am thinking that it's posed, staged, fabricated.

I can see some men in the background and the car is empty, with no body remains so here's what I am thinking that this woman either innocently tried to get by or was asked by the photographer to slink by. The caption suggesting that she's fleeing an Israeli raid is wrong, misleading, unethical.

Here's the Reuters' caption and notice the difference:

A Palestinian woman runs near a burning vehicle during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank village of Zababida, near Jenin March 18, 2008.

Here's another picture from that series with the caption: "Palestinian stone-throwers run near a burning vehicle during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank village of Zababida, near Jenin March 18, 2008".



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