>I am trying to find information on the impact of computer technology on the
>role of the photographer and the social and ethical implications this has
>for the future of the "photorealistic image".
>The person requesting the information is not interested in the computer
>software used to produce an enhanced image or the use that may be made of
>these techniques in the fields of visual arts. She is seeking information
>on this topic related to photojournalism or commercial photography.
Harold Evans, the former editor of the Times, in his book on
photojournalism gives some good examples of doctored newspaper photographs.
He discusses the ethics of this practice. The technologies may have
changed, photomomtage with an air brush, versus computer doctoring, but the
ethics are the same. I can't remember the title of the book, the article
also ran in the British Journal of Photography about ten years ago.
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Alun Price
School of Design
Curtin University of Technology
Perth, Western Australia
rpriceaj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Box U1987 Perth 6001
Tel (09) 351 2273 International 619 351 2273
Fax (09) 3512980 International 619 351 2980
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>role of the photographer and the social and ethical implications this has
>for the future of the "photorealistic image".
>The person requesting the information is not interested in the computer
>software used to produce an enhanced image or the use that may be made of
>these techniques in the fields of visual arts. She is seeking information
>on this topic related to photojournalism or commercial photography.
Harold Evans, the former editor of the Times, in his book on
photojournalism gives some good examples of doctored newspaper photographs.
He discusses the ethics of this practice. The technologies may have
changed, photomomtage with an air brush, versus computer doctoring, but the
ethics are the same. I can't remember the title of the book, the article
also ran in the British Journal of Photography about ten years ago.
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Alun Price
School of Design
Curtin University of Technology
Perth, Western Australia
rpriceaj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Box U1987 Perth 6001
Tel (09) 351 2273 International 619 351 2273
Fax (09) 3512980 International 619 351 2980
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