A notice from the AP: The mayor of Vilnius acknowledged Tuesday distributing a deliberately altered picture to The Associated Press and other news organizations intended to dramatize his anti-parking campaign, an image that then was published in newspapers around world. The AP withdrew the photo, transmitted on Aug. 3, and notified its customers of the [...]
This is a rather strange story of photo manipulation. A report from the Jerusalem Post: The photograph showing President Barack Obama and staffers in the White House Situation Room carefully watching the raid in progress by US forces in Pakistan on the bin Laden compound last Sunday has been published far and wide. One Hassidic [...]
A report from the Press Gazette: The Sun has changed a picture caption after publishing a manipulated image of Libyan rebels beneath three pro-Gadaffi fighter jets. The picture was used in a Sun story headlined: “We beg the West for no-fly zone before Gadaffi’s jets destroy us” on 15 March, which was about a rebel [...]
From Yahoo! Eurosport UK: Spanish sports daily AS has been forced to apologise after a "computer graphics error" saw it airbrush out a player in an image of a controversial offside decision. Dani Alves set up David Villa's opening goal in Barcelona's 2-1 victory over Athletic Bilbao last Sunday but there was some suggestion that [...]
A photograph with an art review on Oct. 1 about the show “Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture” at theMuseum of Modern Art, and several other pictures in an online slide show, appeared to show museum visitors viewing the exhibit. In fact, the people shown were museum staff members, who were asked by museum [...]
Guy Reynolds is the photo editor at the Dallas Morning News and he also writes a photography blog for its website. On Sunday, he wrote about a photo from Getty images that he discovered was altered. Not long after being informed of the problem, Getty dropped Marc Feldman, the photographer who had taken and changed [...]
We get a lot of letters at National Geographic. Recently we received several from readers insisting that William Lascelles’s photograph on the February 2010 Your Shot page was a fake. Our readers were right. The Your Shot rules specify, “Please provide only the original, unmodified camera image.” Lascelles submitted a nicely composed picture showing a [...]
An Associated Press image of fall foliage amid snow in Twin Mountain, N.H., published in Thursday’s Photos of the Day had been digitally altered by the photo service. The photo has been replaced with the actual, unaltered image. Link Report an error
A New York newspaper is in trouble with local politicians and other members of the community after it took two photos and combined them without telling readers. Here’s the photo: A report from the Southampton Press: The photograph depicts Brookhaven Town Councilman Keith Romaine as being present at a July 2 news conference at Smith [...]
(See update at the bottom of this post.) A photographer whose work appeared in the New York Times Magazine has been accused of digitally manipulating his images. Edgar Martins produced a photo essay entitled "Ruins of the Second Gilded Age." It showed abandoned buildings/construction projects and was featured in the magazine and on the Times [...]
In our edition of October 29, The Melbourne Times front cover was a digitally altered photograph depicting an aeroplane flying towards the Rialto Towers. The picture used was not an actual photograph of an aeroplane in the vicinity of any building, but rather, an image that had been digitally altered. Normally, when digitally altered pictures [...]
A picture on Monday with the continuation of a front-page article about Senator John McCain and his 1999 memoir, “Faith of My Fathers,†was published in error. The photograph, of Marlon Brando, whose characters were an inspiration to the young Mr. McCain, was digitally altered. The alterations were made last week when the picture was [...]
As you’re no doubt aware, a photograph purporting to show the successful test firing of four missiles by Iran was revealed to have been manipulated. In fact, only three missiles were successfully fired. The image, provided by the Iranian government, was distributed by Agence-France Presse and used by many media outlets. You can view some [...]
A June 17 “Hollywoodland” raised questions about a photograph of Claus von Stauffenberg that appeared in a United Artists promotional campaign for the movie Valkyrie. The piece pointed out that the photo UA used looked more like Tom Cruise, the star of the film, than a similar-looking AP photo of von Stauffenberg. Because of insufficient [...]
Two photos of a Menlo Park house in the Nov. 4 Chronicle Magazine were modified by the source, without the paper’s knowledge, to eliminate solar panels from the roof. The Chronicle’s policy is that photographs should represent reality precisely and accurately. Link Report an error
