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<blockquote data-quote="Browncoat" data-source="post: 219075" data-attributes="member: 1061"><p>The only thing that bothers me personally is intentional misrepresentation. </p><p></p><p>Jill Greenberg's photographs of then Presidential candidate John McCain immediately springs to mind. Greenberg is a bleeding heart liberal, and was contracted by Atlantic magazine to photograph McCain for their cover. She snapped several photos and poses, all with harsh lighting and from a low perspective (which every portrait photographer knows is a huge no-no) in order to portray him in the worst possible light. She then Photoshopped and posted photos on her site of evil red eyes and monster teeth on McCain's face along with the text "I'm a bloodthirsty warmonger". There's another candid of McCain laughing that she captured, and added "I called my wife a c_nt in front of reporters". There was a lot of backlash from what she did, but not enough in my opinion. Greenberg is still a noted photographer of celebrities.</p><p></p><p>On the other end of the spectrum are artists like Dash Snow. Here's a guy who made a lot of money with street photography of prostitutes, people using drugs, and gangbangers. Snow himself was a junkie who died before he was 30, yet his work...which often featured collages held together with his own semen, blood, and spit, has been in premier art galleries around the world. I don't get it.</p><p></p><p>Our society is full of people who push beyond the boundaries of the norm. Some of them are heralded, some of them are loathed for their efforts. When it comes to art, there really are no boundaries. There are acceptable practices among certain aspects of photography, such as the photojournalist...but those are fading away quickly. News outlets are letting staff photographers go in droves in favor of crowdsourced photos from viewer submissions. Where is the integrity or quality control? Gone. Does it really even matter anymore? Not when you can report a sensationalized story one day and apologize for it the next, and no one is held accountable. It's all forgotten about by Friday when the next big thing hits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Browncoat, post: 219075, member: 1061"] The only thing that bothers me personally is intentional misrepresentation. Jill Greenberg's photographs of then Presidential candidate John McCain immediately springs to mind. Greenberg is a bleeding heart liberal, and was contracted by Atlantic magazine to photograph McCain for their cover. She snapped several photos and poses, all with harsh lighting and from a low perspective (which every portrait photographer knows is a huge no-no) in order to portray him in the worst possible light. She then Photoshopped and posted photos on her site of evil red eyes and monster teeth on McCain's face along with the text "I'm a bloodthirsty warmonger". There's another candid of McCain laughing that she captured, and added "I called my wife a c_nt in front of reporters". There was a lot of backlash from what she did, but not enough in my opinion. Greenberg is still a noted photographer of celebrities. On the other end of the spectrum are artists like Dash Snow. Here's a guy who made a lot of money with street photography of prostitutes, people using drugs, and gangbangers. Snow himself was a junkie who died before he was 30, yet his work...which often featured collages held together with his own semen, blood, and spit, has been in premier art galleries around the world. I don't get it. Our society is full of people who push beyond the boundaries of the norm. Some of them are heralded, some of them are loathed for their efforts. When it comes to art, there really are no boundaries. There are acceptable practices among certain aspects of photography, such as the photojournalist...but those are fading away quickly. News outlets are letting staff photographers go in droves in favor of crowdsourced photos from viewer submissions. Where is the integrity or quality control? Gone. Does it really even matter anymore? Not when you can report a sensationalized story one day and apologize for it the next, and no one is held accountable. It's all forgotten about by Friday when the next big thing hits. [/QUOTE]
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