they see, right? Well how can that be when the photos taken are
cleaned, edited, manipulated, skewed, etc.
Can I say this image was manipulated? Not in the sense that we have
grown to accept.
Not like when Brady moved dead Civil War bodies to make a better
picture.
Not even when a guy can take one shot of a soldier looking one way and
a second shot taken a split second afterwards of civilians looking
another and digitally place them together.
What I do mean is when a photographer nowadays can take hundreds of
photos of a man at a podium and an editor can choose one that makes
him look like Das Feurer.
Personally, I think it is hilarious how easy and manipulated a
population is today.
Do you think an Obama supporter would ever run this in his pape? Even
if it was the only photo available?
1 comment:
Hi Aaron,
Glad to see you're doing well post Navy!
Thought I would comment on the Obama photo. I agree with you totally about the manipulation - most viewers don't understand how subtle messages can be communicated in an image just by the positioning, timing, lighting and editorial choice that results in a particular image being published.
At the same time, it's rather refreshing to see Obama in a rather unflattering light since nearly all of U.S. media have him tagged as the new savior. Couldn't find the original AP image, but here's a link to the typical example:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2194/2281055958_2ff2cfc2c5.jpg
The image you've posted is not being carried en masse ... hmmm ... would that be manipulation as well?
All my best
Leslie
LAShively@aol.com
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