Wednesday, September 19, 2007

When is photo manipulation ok?



In this case, CBS got in trouble for "slenderizing" Ms. Couric. But is it okay to remove gray hairs? Fix teeth? Hide a visible bra strap? Working in magazine publishing, I see a lot of this kind of stuff -- and some of it is necessary and positive. But in photojournalism, things are different. Where is the line?

Thoughts? (I know what I think, but I'm soliciting feedback.)
: )

1 comment:

Tara said...

Funny story --

I had an internship at the magazine that manipulated this photo. I actually copy-edited the story... but it wasn't widely known that the photos were manipulated.

Interesting...