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pachyderm
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| There was a time when people believed images they say, and they moved us to action. Sadly, now the first reaction seems to be "Was this photoshopped?". "If ever social change was propelled by photographs, it was during the civil rights movement. Burning buses and raised batons, snarling police dogs and blasting hoses, the young black girl in bobby socks and gingham trailed by a group of sneering white girls as she tried to enter high school — the images spurred a national reckoning in a way that words could not." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/20/us/20civil.html
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lion
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the three images that moved me the most were the Chicago convention riots, Kent State and the burned kid walking down the road in Nam.
people are so desensitized now that seeing someones entrails on the seat beside their lifeless body has little impact.
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eric rose (6/21/2008)
the three images that moved me the most were the Chicago convention riots, Kent State and the burned kid walking down the road in Nam.
I agree, and I would add the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald to the list, and the shot of the Memphis balcony where Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated. The case of Kim Phuc has been an interesting one. Her image has been exploited by both sides of the Vietnam War debate, and she was used as a propaganda tool by the post-war Communist regime. She has lived a relatively quiet life here in Canada for the quite some time now. I hope that she does not have to re-live that horror every time some photographer posts a graphic image of world conflict.
people are so desensitized now that seeing someones entrails on the seat beside their lifeless body has little impact.
Yes, the one quality our society seems to be lacking is discretion. It truly seems that "everything that is not forbidden is compulsory", to quote T.H. White. In fact, it is almost as if television programs post "viewer discretion" warnings as pornographic come-ons to their viewing audience.
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The problem I see, is not that there are not a lot of images that move us or are capable of making social change, the problem is that our current society NOW assumes that all images are "photoshopped" unless stated otherwise. These images may have moved past generations, but given the current trend towards digital manipulation of images, may fail to do so in the future.
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lion
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Robert I beg to differ with you. I don't think John Q Public even considers whether an image is PS'd or not. We photographers are sensitive to it but for the unwashed masses it's a non issue until someone gets busted for faking.
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