Pictures gone awry
The picture that I chose is a digital photo of a soldier in Basra. I chose this picture because I believe that this is a very harmful type of digitally enhanced photo. It seems that the media will do anything to paint a bad picture of the war, in order to meet the U.S. populace need for justice. The picture was taken by Brian Walski, who was later fired for digitally enhancing this particular photo. It was altered by Walski taking two photographs and editing them together to look like the same picture. No doubt it was manipulated to show the harshness of soldiers against the people of Iraq in order to instill inspiration or anger or any sort of emotion from someone who would have seen this picture. The manipulation was indeed harmful. It was harmful to the solider, harmful to the inspiration of the war and harmful to anyone who read about or saw the picture because it may have skewed their views. (Taken the truth away from the populace).
-drew
-drew
posted by Drew Cauthorn at
11:18 AM
7 Comments:
Your picture reminded me of a photo I saw a couple years ago that was altered to look a certain way so that a soldier seemed like he was helping people but really he was trying to shoot/catch someone.
Drew, I agree with what you said about this photo, I think what was done to the images was wrong.
I had a different view of the photo. I thought the soldier was trying to protect the Iraqi people, and that it could be seen as a pro-war picture, showing the need for foriegn protection in Iraq. Well, I guess different people can see the same thing in different ways.
Drew,
I agree with what you said. The alteration was harmful because it gave a false representaion of what it was actually like in that particular picture.
Zack Garcia
I also had a different view of that photo as well. The side caption said the picture depicted a soldier trying to protect the people by urging them to take shelter, which would be a pro-war advertisment. Either way, media propaganda is very harmful and undermines our constitutional right to freely choose our opinions, especially in political situations.
-Ashley
Reading your blog and then reading Shelby's and Ashley's posts heightened the need to remember that in a way photographers are salesman too; thus they will try to represent what they wish for people to see and equally so people will see what they wish to see. Nice blog, thanks!
ya...but i was right
soooooo
ha
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