Shock-inducing photography: is it ethical?
MLKstudios wrote: That is a moving image. Our Boston Globe has some of the best photojournalism online. An example:
www.boston.com/bigpicture/2011/04/cherno...ter_25th_annive.html
Matthew
Note, the best journalism is not done with long lenses from far away, but short ones close in. It takes us there and wraps that world around us.
“Amateurs worry about equipment, professionals worry about money, masters worry about light, I just make pictures… ” ~ Vernon Trent
There is a fundamnetal difficulty with what Arvid seems to propose. There is,nor has there ever been a universally, or even generally, or even locally accepted ethical code, any more than an aesthetic one. Who would judge, and on what basis?To underscore Mathhew's point on what people actually do, there is a well known anecdote about a news photographer from the 40's and 50's, who went by Weegee. He was alwas in the streets at night with his Graflex, and happened on an accident victim still alive on a sidewalk in New York City. When he latered related coming upon this scenre, someone asked: "What did you do?". " 1/60 at f/8" he replied.
PS Posting this to keep the joke going.
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