Posted on 07/10/2009 8:06:55 AM PDT by Dallas59
NEW YORK — The New York Times inadvertently published digitally manipulated photographs in the latest issue of its Sunday magazine, the newspaper said Thursday.
In an editors note, the Times acknowledged that Edgar Martins, a 32-year-old freelance photographer based in Bedford, England, digitally altered the photos. The shots have been removed from the newspaper's Web site.
Readers pointed out alterations to the photo essay, titled "Ruins of the Second Gilded Age," on the blogs MetaFilter and PDN Pulse.
The photos showed run-down housing construction projects across the U.S. that had been hit by the recession. In an introduction to the spread, the magazine said the photos were created with long exposures but not altered by computer.
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At first, I thought the article was about public housing projects, but after digging some, I find it was about McMansions.
“Does anyone know if the Photos were DIGITALLY TAKEN? I.E. No Film?”
The only photographers who use film any more are “art photographers”. Everyone else uses digital.
Don’t know why the headline says “Public Housing.” The photo essay was on unfinished and unoccupied condos and high-end residential property.
It focused on private building projects that have been abandoned due to the economy.
If that was the only issue, then the markings/debris on the floor would be symmetrical. This may mean that the debris was photoshopped in as well.
Odd huh. I was about to apply for public housing after seeing that pic. ;-)
In other words, "Let's do the nasty deed and then apologize for it later."
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