LA Times photographer fired for doctoring photographs? by John Cullison ..... Politics Debate Forum # 3 [Arc]
Date: 4/2/2003 8:22:19 PM ( 21 y ago)
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In an amusing twist, the photographer claimed to be doing it to "improve the composition", but the ultimate image made it look as if a British soldier was threatening an Iraqi man holding a baby. The truth of the war is bad enough without people going to efforts to make things look worse.
You can read about this (and see the before and after photos) here.
Here’s the first photo:
The second photo:
And the altered photo:
Notice: he took the photo of the man holding a baby, and combined it with the image of the soldier shouting and holding up his hand—and enlarged the soldier.
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