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To: G.Mason
By the way, cartoonist Art Spiegleman (pulitzer prize winning creator of Maus and editor/contributor of Raw and The New Yorker) has said that now that we are in the age of digital photography (and photo manipulation) photo journalism is no longer "proof" of an event and that "cartoon" accounts of an event are just as valid (he did a 2 page piece I believe for the New Yorker addressing this).

This was several years prior to this year's LA Times photo controversy:

This photo:

Is really a composite of these 2 photos:


27 posted on 10/06/2003 1:53:19 PM PDT by weegee
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To: weegee
I remember seeing that.

Nothing is sacred, and everything suspect.

Hard too keep from being wrapped in tin foil. ;)

28 posted on 10/06/2003 2:02:35 PM PDT by G.Mason (Lessons of life need not be fatal)
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