Comments on: Newsweek alters photo… by cropping it?

By: yelvington

yelvington — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:11:57 +0000

I’m quite aware that photogs can be prima donnas. On top of that, I think Dick Cheney is an ass.

But this just seems intentionally abusive. I agree with Francie. We should expect better of Newsweek.

By: Gary Miller

Gary Miller — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:38:53 +0000

Let’s try to remember that integrety and truth to the reader is an important part of design.

By: Francie

Francie — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:17:04 +0000

Wow you guys are being pretty tough on photogs. This really was a brutal crop. What would you think if it was a photo of Obama looking at monkeys at the zoo with his daughters and they cropped it to make it look like Obama was alone in the picture and made the photo about race? Yeah, that would be totally inappropriate. Same here. Cheney was in the kitchen making dinner with his family and Newsweek cropped it to go along with an editorial about torture. That’s quite a leap.

By: Sven

Sven — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:47:04 +0000

Gimmie a break. Yeah, this crop denigrated the whole profession…it’s a photo. That you shot for a magazine, right? And they paid you. I love how photographers take themselves so seriously. You’d think they invented photography.

And it’s not a photo illustration. In any form. It’s a photo, unaltered, of a moment in time. Period.