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Sj

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:03:08 +1300

who killed her is the more important detail than who she was
This can never be true.

BenWilson

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:40:53 +1300

I still think those are some fantastic shots. I guess astrophotography is pretty much screwed on those rules, the shot averaging being vital. Mind you, that's what the hardware is doing in an interpolated zoom...

Euan Mason

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:49:25 +1300

I cited the disqualified winner of the 2012 National Geographic Photo Contest

National Geographic has an interesting policy and an understandable aversion to image manipulation that creates unreal images, but I think it has to change somewhat. NG bought and published this image which is as it came out of…

DexterX

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:21:57 +1300

There is a benefit to getting the "news" from radio..

The Time cover makes me "uncomfortable" – an illustration of how tabloid and low print media has sunk.

Joe Wylie

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:06:03 +1300

It's interesting to speculate how much of the killer-cyborg vibe is context. The pic, by Peiter Hugo, originally appeared in the New York Times last year to, it seems, no controversy at all.
It's certainly interesting how the image gained a whole new life once the context changed. Its original…

Richard Aston

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:32:09 +1300

It’s really hard work to think past a made-up and photographed celebrity on the side of a bus-shelter

Even harder thinking past a made up and well presented ideology . I think the image thing is the tip of the iceberg in terms of the attempts to manipulate our minds.…

Richard Aston

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:08:54 +1300

Not quite all ... the New York tabloids followed the Sun's lead pretty closely too.

Oh god I despair , its even worse

George Darroch

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:43:04 +1300

An audience that’s a lot more sophisticated (and cynical, both for better and worse) that it used to be.

People say that. I don't believe them. Our brains operate on a base pattern-dependent level, and going up and beyond that takes work, and requires deliberate engagement. Being informed protects you…

Craig Ranapia

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:43:07 +1300

I was talking to a university class the other day (among other things) about photo adjustment with computers, and how you need to be very careful about what is an acceptable level of manipulation to your audience.

An audience that’s a lot more sophisticated (and cynical, both for better and…

David Hood

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:25:45 +1300

Craig Ranapia

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:47:40 +1300

I think this talks to a really interesting piece of psychology. I remember during the ‘teapot’ scandal with Banks and Key how the media started publishing stories about the Government – and Key – with really unflattering images of our Prime Minister. Shadowy, looking tired etc.

During the PAS thread…

Russell Brown

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:25:43 +1300

Yeah what the hell is happening when the (alleged) murderer gets all the media space including glossy , sexy even, pics .

Not quite all ... the New York tabloids followed the Sun's lead pretty closely too.

David Cormack

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:09:48 +1300

I think this talks to a really interesting piece of psychology. I remember during the 'teapot' scandal with Banks and Key how the media started publishing stories about the Government – and Key – with really unflattering images of our Prime Minister. Shadowy, looking tired etc.

The way the image…

Craig Ranapia

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:05:57 +1300

It’s interesting to speculate how much of the killer-cyborg vibe is context.

A hell of a lot, I'd say. If they'd cropped the bottom of that O.J. Simpson mug-shot, it would have been pretty much indistinguishable from a million pretty anodyne 'candid' photos of Simpson taken over the years. IIRC…

Richard Aston

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:01:06 +1300

And like so such of the Pistorious porn, the most interesting thing is what’s not there: Reeva Steenkamp – not “Pistorious’ girlfriend.” You know, the woman that “superman gunman” shot to death.
+1 Craig
Yeah what the hell is happening when the (alleged) murderer gets all the media space including…

Morgan Nichol

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:57:46 +1300

For everyone in the world that didn't know her, who killed her is the more important detail than who she was. Arguing otherwise seems futile. If she'd been killed in a car crash, or murdered by some unknown scumbag, we'd never have heard about her passing at all, named or…

Russell Brown

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:43:14 +1300

Bag News on the Pistorius cover.

It's interesting to speculate how much of the killer-cyborg vibe is context. The pic, by Peiter Hugo, originally appeared in the New York Times last year to, it seems, no controversy at all.

Joe Wylie

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:34:21 +1300

Bag News on the Pistorius cover.

Craig Ranapia

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 13:14:06 +1300

Blade runner and murder accused Oscar Pistorius made the cover of Time magazine last week, if for all the wrong reasons

And like so such of the Pistorious porn, the most interesting thing is what’s not there: **Reeva Steenkamp – not “Pistorious’ girlfriend.” You know, the woman that “superman gunman”…

Chris Waugh

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:40:02 +1300

Thanks for posting this Russell. You've very indirectly touched on an aspect of Western media coverage of China, especially in imagery, that tends to bug me at this time of year, and how that imagery is used to reinforce certain predetermined narratives.

I especially like the Wired cover. Very arresting.…

Public Address

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 11:40:02 +1300

Discussion from blog post.