I will grant that most of the photos in the book are commercial or corporate images and not what we would consider pure journalism. But still … to “glamorize” an image by adding more smoke from a factory stack seems … well … odd.

(For mobile viewers, the video is in Flash, sorry about that.)

(Thanks to Seth Siditsky for the lead.)

A democracy must have a free and open press, one that does not work under fear of the government.

In the third part of the series, he quotes MaryAnne Golon of the Washington Post:

You need to care deeply about every image in your portfolio. If you don’t care about your pictures, why would anyone else?

Damn straight …

“We have reviewed the RAW image, as supplied by World Press Photo, and the resulting published JPEG image. It is clear that the published photo was retouched with respect to both global and local color and tone. Beyond this, however, we find no evidence of significant photo manipulation or compositing. Furthermore, the analysis purporting photo manipulation is deeply flawed, as described briefly below.”

So … was there someone on a grassy knoll with a reflector?

In all, the government seized the records for more than 20 separate telephone lines assigned to AP and its journalists in April and May of 2012. The exact number of journalists who used the phone lines during that period is unknown, but more than 100 journalists work in the offices where phone records were targeted, on a wide array of stories about government and other matters.

Really?

One Samuel A. Bemis spent a total of $76 for a “daguerreotype apparatus” and 12 glass plates. Including shipping. That’s about $2,128 in today’s money, if you’re curious.