04-12-2017, 09:17 PM
$tevie,
I thought my statement below was pretty clear, but I will try to clarify further.
I DON"T think the photographer was the one who lit the fire or brought these jewish looking actors together just so he could take a photo of it. But I do think he probably directed the scene and asked the guy in the photo to walk by, while reading his book to make the shot more enhanced. To may that isn't recording the news - it is creating the news. I would even go so far as classifying it as "Fake News".
I journalist or photojournalist's job isn't to manufacture or influence the news they are trying to record.
If the you think staging isn't the right word, how about direct, manage, influence or conduct?
I hope those words better reflect what I think they mean.
JPK
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Not that the photographer set the fire, placed the barricades around it and cast some jews to be in a photo, but obviously the situation was influenced to "get the shot".
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I thought my statement below was pretty clear, but I will try to clarify further.
I DON"T think the photographer was the one who lit the fire or brought these jewish looking actors together just so he could take a photo of it. But I do think he probably directed the scene and asked the guy in the photo to walk by, while reading his book to make the shot more enhanced. To may that isn't recording the news - it is creating the news. I would even go so far as classifying it as "Fake News".
I journalist or photojournalist's job isn't to manufacture or influence the news they are trying to record.
If the you think staging isn't the right word, how about direct, manage, influence or conduct?
I hope those words better reflect what I think they mean.
JPK
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Not that the photographer set the fire, placed the barricades around it and cast some jews to be in a photo, but obviously the situation was influenced to "get the shot".
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