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Vanity Fair's Photo Finagling
The Smoking Gun...Vanity Fair ^ | FEBRUARY 2

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."


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To: george76

That is another wonderful Arnett (Fake but Accurate) picture.

Somebody needs to photoshop a "Baby Milk Factory" sign on the building behind Arnett!


61 posted on 02/25/2006 8:18:29 AM PST by rolling_stone (Question Authority!)
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To: Richard Kimball
I think under fair use, they have a defense.

You also need The Jack, and your own Federal Judge to boot...

62 posted on 02/25/2006 8:18:37 AM PST by an amused spectator (Bush Runner! The Donkey is after you! Bush Runner! When he catches you, you're through!)
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To: george76
If the photo was published in the December issue of Vanity Fair, I'd be interested to know if the January of February issues had a letter-to-the-editor or other notice from Petah Ahnett pointing out the fraud.

Of course, being an old fraud himself, I'm sure Petah just shrugged and went back to collating his collection of pin-up photos of Christiane Amanpour.

Leni

63 posted on 02/25/2006 8:19:04 AM PST by MinuteGal (Sail the Bounding Main to the Balmy, Palmy Caribbean on FReeps Ahoy 4. Register Now!)
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To: Old Sarge

Do you know of a way to copy and paste into HTML a copy of a graphic in PDF?


64 posted on 02/25/2006 8:19:21 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: george76

There's no reason the fictional stories propagated by the dying media shouldn't be accompanied by faked-up photographs. You know the old saying, "One picture is worth a thousand lies."


65 posted on 02/25/2006 8:22:11 AM PST by IronJack
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To: Bon mots
When I was in jr high...back when schools were schools....

I remember the stuff on Stalin deleting Trotsky from pictures, adding himself, working himself into pictures and meetings
were he wasn't.

The more things change...

66 posted on 02/25/2006 8:24:00 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: theFIRMbss

are you guys playing fizzbin?


67 posted on 02/25/2006 8:24:18 AM PST by isom35
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To: SandyInSeattle

You're right. Arnett is most obvious, because he's out of scale, the light is different, and they didn't even bother to slip some photo element in front of him. It also looks like they just faded from the brick sidewalk to the gravel where he's standing. However, the whole photo looks like a collage.


68 posted on 02/25/2006 8:25:28 AM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: Old Professer

I could be mistaken, but if you save the .pdf as a .GIF or a .jpg, you can then put it into HTML.

A screen capture off Powerpoint has always been successful for me.


69 posted on 02/25/2006 8:28:18 AM PST by Old Sarge (In a Hole in the Ground, there Lived a Fobbit...)
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To: Old Sarge

I agree. He is too big compared to the other people in the photo. It is silly looking, like he is in the land of small people.


70 posted on 02/25/2006 8:29:07 AM PST by sportutegrl (People who say, "All I know is . . ." really mean, "All I want you to focus on is . . .")
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To: george76

I wonder why Dan Rather isn't in the photo. He was Saigon bureau chief for SeeBS back in the 60s.


71 posted on 02/25/2006 8:30:04 AM PST by texasbluebell
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To: Old Sarge

Thanks; all I have to do now is learn how to use Powerpoint, I guess.


72 posted on 02/25/2006 8:32:15 AM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Richard Kimball

"the whole photo looks like a collage..."

They are earning, while they are learning.


73 posted on 02/25/2006 8:32:50 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: texasbluebell

74 posted on 02/25/2006 8:41:36 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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They should have 'shopped Rather into the photo as well to complete the con. In for a penny, in for a pound.


75 posted on 02/25/2006 8:53:23 AM PST by A.A. Cunningham
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To: wardaddy

You are so right about women's magazines.

I never read them and haven't for years. But one day I took my mother-in-law to a hair salon and sat and read one. I forget which one it was, one of the run-of-the-mill ones.

There was a little quiz about what kinds of couples have the best sex. The answer was, Lesbian couples.

I couldn't believe it.


76 posted on 02/25/2006 9:12:14 AM PST by squarebarb
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To: george76

VF jumped the shark when Graydon Carter went mentally ill over Iraq. From about 1997-2003, it was at the top of American magazines.


77 posted on 02/25/2006 9:16:12 AM PST by denydenydeny ("Osama... made the mistake of confusing media conventional wisdom with reality" (Mark Steyn))
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To: denydenydeny
I agree with that. You still find an occasional can't-miss article -- Hitchens writes for them, after all! -- but Carter's moonbattery has really infected the magazine. By the way, for those unfamiliar, Vanity Fair isn't a "women's magazine" -- more like a New Yorker or Esquire.
78 posted on 02/25/2006 9:23:13 AM PST by JennysCool (Islam: Scientology with Scimitars.)
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To: george76
Fake, but accurate. Trademark MSM
79 posted on 02/25/2006 9:47:23 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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To: Grampa Dave

I knew it was fake the minute I didn't see Jane Fonda and Effin Kerry.


80 posted on 02/25/2006 9:50:43 AM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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