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Fauxtography Classic: Famous World War II Photo Staged, Manipulated
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 24, 2010 05:42 am EST
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| On the left, see the original - and staged - photo of the Reichstag. The version on the right is the manipulated version of the staged version. (Credit: FamousPictures.org) |
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A Soviet World War II photo inspired by the famous Iwo Jima flag raising image was both manipulated and staged, bloggers write.
"Symbolizing Soviet victory and revenge; not only did [the photographer] immortalize the moment: he created it," Dean Lucas wrote on FamousPictures.org about the photo, called the Reichstag photo.
Lucas wrote that Soviet war photographer Yevgeny Khaldei was "on the front lines" with the Russian...Go to full story
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Irish Film Institute Discovers News Photo Really a War Film Still
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 05, 2010 10:29 am EST
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| This cover photo, which has long used as a news documentation of a 1920 event in the Irish War of Independence, has recently been revealed as a still from a 1926 movie. (Credit: The Irish Independent) |
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The Irish Film Institute has discovered that a long-used news photo is not a documentation of a 1920 event, but actually a still from a 1926 film.
The Irish Independent reported May 29 that the film institute learned the photo is a still from “Irish Destiny,” when it was restoring Ireland's film archives. The 1926 drama was the first movie set in Ireland about that war, IrishCentral reported.
The...Go to full story
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British political campaigns staged photos : Actors portray police, doctor, nurse
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
May 10, 2010 08:25 am EST
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| ACTORS PORTRAYED POLICE IN CAMPAIGN MATERIALS: The Liberal Democrats have admitted to staging at least three photos for candidate campaign materials. This screenshot from the BBC's coverage shows nearly identical photos in two different candidates' campaign materials. (Candidates on left). |
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British elections were May 6. Hopefully, the questionable photos that were spread throughout the campaign by at least one political party will cease in the future.
Wales Online reported May 5 that Welsh Liberal Democrats have admitted they used models in campaign materials for the third time.
This time, the Liberal Democrats said that parliamentary candidate Dominic Hannigan, who is photographed talking to a doctor in an...Go to full story
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Tiger Fauxtographer Jailed for Violating Parole, Said Searching for Tiger
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| by Sydney Smith, StinkyJournalism.org |
May 08, 2010 08:24 am EST
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| Zhou Zhenglong was put in jail for not reporting in with officials. Zhou's 2007 fauxtographs of this tiger (from a poster) in the wild sparked a three-year investigation, culminating in 13 reprimands or firings and his jailing. |
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Tiger fauxtographer Zhou Zhenglong, who created a national scandal two years ago with his faked photographs of rare tigers, was jailed for not following court instructions and properly checking in with Chinese authorities, Yahoo! News reported May 5.
The Wall Street Journal reported that the Chinese farmer said he was trying to track the tiger in the mountains when he violated his parole. Zhou was picked up April 30, Sina reported.
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Move Over Balloon Boy, Remember Monster Pig Hoax? : Forced Perspective Photo Tricks on Flickr
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| by Molika Ashford, Stinkyjournalism.org |
October 23, 2009 08:21 am EST
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| STINKYJOURNALISM EXCLUSIVE: This new image is based on a scientific analysis done for StinkyJournalism by retired New York University physicist Dr. Richard Brandt. Brandt's analysis of the perspective geometry in the photo shows that the boy only appears to be directly behind the pig. He was actually about 5.5 feet further away, cuing the optical illusion that the boy is smaller than he is and the pig is huge in the foreground. This image illustrates how the forced perspective technique was used to create the infamous Monster Pig photo. See our Photo Gallery below that shows a collection of forced perspective trick photos from Flickr. (Credit: Robert Slawinski, StinkyJournalism) |
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Before the Colorado "Balloon Boy" hoax, there was the "Monster Pig" publicity stunt, which much like "Balloon Boy" involved the exploitation of a young boy and generated press attention around the world.
The 2007 photo distributed by the Associated Press (AP) featured an 11-year-old Alabama boy hunter holding a large handgun from behind--what only appeared to be--a wild 1051-pound beast. The image turned out to be fake, created...Go to full story
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NY Times Kid Texting Photo: Staged danger?
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| by Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 23, 2009 04:41 am EST
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| Photo District News asks The NY Times about the circumstances of their photo published Sunday showing teens driving dangerously. The Times caption: "At 60 miles per hour on a Missouri highway, a 16-year-old-driver texts with a friend as a seventeen-year-old takes the wheel." |
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"Were we safe? Probably not.... As journalists, we are not here to judge or to direct, but only to observe and tell the story," said New York Times photographer, Dan Gill to Photo District News.
Was Gill speaking about Iraq? No. He was in a car shooting pictures of teenagers who were driving dangerously. But don't worry he says he had permission to photograph the teens from the parents and did not name the teens. Are we to believe that having a New...Go to full story
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Students hoax Paris-Match photojournalism contest with fake images
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| by Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org |
July 16, 2009 09:26 am EST
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| The winning photographs in a French photojournalism contest were hoaxes contrived by two students. The photographs were said to show struggling youth. The blog HorseThink published one of the fake images, along with the fake caption: "I have been in conflict with my family since I was 16. Even if I don’t have a scholarship nor parental assistance, I have always fended for myself.
Armin, 23, Master of Sociology." The truth was all the supposedly distressed youths were fellow art students who posed for staged images.
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Chase Jarvis Blog reports that on June 24, "Two French students were awarded the annual Grand Prix du Photoreportage Etudiant last week to honor a photographic story that presented images documenting the precarious lives of students today and the things they must do in order to survive and succeed. The only catch is that the entire story was a fake."
Guillaume Chauvin and Remi Huberr, enrolled as art students at Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of...Go to full story
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NPPA has specific ethics code for digital photography
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| by Rhonda Roland Shearer, StinkyJournalism.org |
June 04, 2009
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| Look at the two legs under the number 19 in the lower right of the bottom photo. They were removed by the photographer before publication in the Toledo Blade (see upper image). The NPPA uses this 2007 Toledo Blade photo as an clear example of unethical digital alterations. The photographer was fired for doctoring 80 images. |
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The National Press Photographers Assn. (NPAA) has a specific ethics code for digital photography, titled "Digital Manipulation Code of Ethics." The NPPA "Statement of Principle" was first approved, Nov. 1990; later revised in July 1991; and finally incorporated into their bylaws, June 1995.
Digital Manipulation Code of Ethics
"As journalists we believe the guiding principle of our profession is accuracy; therefore,...Go to full story
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CNN's Credibility on Life Support?
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| Video of Dying Boy Appears Staged |
| by Danielle Mastropiero, StinkyJournalism.org |
March 20, 2009
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| FAKE VIDEO FROM GAZA? While much of CNN’s clip of the medical activity is below camera level, the doctor on the right with the dark brown hair who appears to be doing CPR, according the experts, is not in the correct position for doing real chest compressions. |
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Stinky Journalism's Danielle Mastropiero is a career EMT as well as a former American Heart Association CPR Instructor.
The claim captured in the title and caption of the video is dramatic: "Cameraman watches brother die: CNN's Michael Holmes reports on the Gaza cameraman who recorded the death of his own brother." When bloggers first raised doubts and suggested the scene was staged, the video was quickly removed by CNN but soon reemerged with the...Go to full story
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Snopes Duped!
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| Urban Legends Web Site Mistakenly Says "World's Tallest Woman" Fake Photo is Real |
| by Danielle Mastropiero, StinkyJournalism.org |
March 06, 2009
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| HOW DID SNOPES MISS THIS FAKE? Look at the circled areas. Snopes didn't notice that this photo is an obvious fake. A bad cut and paste job, for example, left part of a car above the woman's shoulder on the left...that does not continue behind her other shoulder on the right. It's as if a car door is hanging nonsensically in the air. Such Photoshop mistakes are readily identifiable. |
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Snopes is a well-known, and often useful debunking web site. It is described as "The definitive Internet reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
StinkyJournalism found that while a Snopes investigation regarding photographs of the "world’s tallest women" successfully debunked claims that the woman was of record-breaking height, they failed to catch that at least one of the photos was...Go to full story
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