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Reality In Photography

Research evaluating the publics perception of manipulated photographs in the media, more specifically what the public wants instituted. The public was surveyed based on their willingness to participate before and after they viewed a book of manipulations, some made by the researcher, and also other famous examples. Evaluation was based upon coding and memoing of the responses given. It was found out that the public is aware of manipulations in the picture media, and that they do want something implemented to regulate this gap in policy. The data collected could be well used in the marketing, policy making, and media fields.

the world. It benefits the public by promoting awareness of the editing of photographs used in newspapers and magazines, and evaluating what the public would like done about this problem. For example, if the common person on the street knew that photographer Allan Detrich, from The Toledo Blade, had digitally manipulated 79 of 947 pictures that were submitted for publication, it might change the perception of photography (Winslow, 2007).   Often the power of an image is not truly understood by the general public. If a simple, unaltered photo of a dead American soldier being drug through the streets of Somalia can touch the entire world and repeal the occupation force there, then how much more could a photograph do if we did not have to question its validity? There are more photographers like Detrich, Brian Walski, of the LA Times, who combined two pictures that he shot in Iraq, one of a war fight with the British occupying force, and one of civilians, combining them to seem to depict the horror of misconduct of an occupying force on the civilians, to get his picture published (Winslow, 2007).   The availability of photo editing programs, like Adobe Photoshop, even to the common individual, makes it hard to prevent these sorts of happenings, but it should be better enforced with some sort of penalty to those who do not use it for personal use,...