Posted on 02/25/2006 7:31:48 AM PST by george76
MIA Peter Arnett magically appears in Vietnam journo reunion pic
In its December 2005 issue, Vanity Fair magazine manipulated a photograph to make it appear that veteran journalist Peter Arnett was among a group of war correspondents gathered on a teeming Ho Chi Minh City street during a reunion of the Vietnam press corps.
In fact, according to a source familiar with the photo shoot, Arnett was not present when photographer Jonas Karlsson shot a group portrait of eight journalists last April.
Instead, the former CNN star (who covered the war for the Associated Press) was subsequently photographed solo and grafted--apparently through the magic of Photoshop--onto the group picture.
Arnett, who attended part of the Vietnam reunion, which coincided with the 30th anniversary of the war's end, is seen at the far left of the Vanity Fair photo. His space had actually been occupied during the group session by curious Vietnamese passersby.
A photo caption claims that Arnett and the other reporters were "photographed outside their old hangout the Givral Café on April 29, 2005."
Well, eight of nine ain't bad. Usually, when publications combine images into a single picture, the resulting photo is described as a composite.
The Vanity Fair byline reads, "Photograph By Jonas Karlsson."
Got a link to where one could go to see it?
Try the link provided in #1. Scroll down just a bit, it's as the bottom of the story on Smoking Gun.
There's always the usual link at the top of the thread! :-)
Not much media coverage of this while hundreds of stories on the nude actresses on Vanity Fair's cover.
Duh!!! My bad, sorry.
"didn't do it, didn't see me do it, can't prove I did it"*
*I can't help wondering if I've violated some sort of copyright by posting that quote...
The picture was taken at night. I don't see high contrast shadows like you would with flash photograpy. I would'nt be suprized if Peter wasn't the only on photoshopped.
Vanity Fair much like any current rag directed at chicks has a writing and editorial staff that would be better served at Mother Jones or the Nation.
The crap women's mags spew is incredibly lefty.
I think the average contributor is a Gen Z fembot Bush hater from Sarah Lawrence up the road.....ugly and angry selling fantasies to womyn.....
so full of paradox and hypocrisy
Lesbican Annie does take fine "portraitures" though...I'll give her that.
And, you might add: "not only that, but even if you have proof, you can't make it public because we'll sue for copyright violation."
It's gone. It wasn't anything special. I just photoshopped Cartman into the group photo. Personally, I thought he looked more real than Arnett did.
Here is a link. The picture is at the bottom.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0202061vietnam1.html
Get it while it's hot! They'll prolly be getting a cease-and-desist on Monday. ;-)
RK, you just figured out how to make Peter Arnett toast.
Thanks for letting us know the reason a post was removed.
One sometimes wonders...
I think under fair use, they have a defense. They're running the photo with the photoshopping as the story. We could probably make the same case, but I don't think FR wants to deal with being in court hourly.
That is another wonderful Arnett (Fake but Accurate) picture.
How sloppy. They all look like they're in front of a blue background with a shot of Vietnam added later.
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