Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Faking Award-winning Photos/Quiz on Photographers

 Please read the following article about photographers faking photos.  This photographer won an award for his photo essay about Rochester's "Crescent" northeast area.  One of the photos was staged.  What do you think about this?


http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2013/02/when-reality-isn%E2%80%99t-dramatic-enough-misrepresention-in-a-world-press-and-picture-of-the-year-winning-photo/

http://blogs.democratandchronicle.com/unite/2013/02/28/paolo-pellegrin-not-the-first-to-photograph-blood-splatter-in-the-crescent/

Photographers to study:

Gordon Parks
Zoriah
Roman Vishniac
Spider Martin
Matthew Brady
Robert Capa
Andre Kertesz
Don McCullin
Dorothea Lange
Margaret Bourke-White
Don Eldon



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