Word: gefter
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...privy access to what really happened, unadulterated by any hint of their authors’ opinions. “The New York Times’ policy on posing news pictures, unofficially speaking, is that we don’t pose them, period, ever,” wrote Philip Gefter, the Times’ Page One picture editor, in an e-mail Tuesday. “Posing a subject (or subjects) of a news story changes the meaning of a picture from fact that is reported to information that is manipulated...
...story, there are many gradations” of subtle influence, suggestion and outright posing of subjects, some more objectionable than others. Ultimately, said Cunningham, “there are things a photographer will do which don’t fall under strict, textbook guidelines” of the kind Gefter mentioned. Cunningham stressed that such photographs, taken while reporting, must be accompanied by “upfront,” full disclosure. But in many cases, these things may go unnoticed...