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photographyPhotographyFrom daguerreotypes to digital.2NA=1154&NC=1221&DI=4098&PS=58583&PI=7315PhotographyfalsefalsespacernotembeddedphotographyWho's Zooming Who?Jim LewisErrol Morris' obsessive investigation of a Roger Fenton photograph.noWho's Zooming Who?Does it matter if Roger Fenton staged a Crimean War photograph?noThere is a phenomenon often at play in the worlds of art, literature, criticism, and journalism, which I have come to think of as the JM Effect, in honor of its most striking manifestation, a series of moves by New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm. Malcolm, you may recall, was sued for libel by a man named Jeffrey Masson and then went on to write a book called The Journalist and the Murderer, which attacked a writer named Joe McGinniss for betraying his subject, a convict named Jeffrey MacDonald. Quite a few people believed that Malcolm was trying to expiate her own sins, or perhaps to exonerate herself by comparison. Me, I always figured she was just obsessed with the initials.truenotochyperlinkno200711152319PMThursdayNovNovember1711/1/2007 9:23:19 PM633295345990000000200711152319PMThursdayNovNovember1711/1/2007 9:23:19 PM633295345990000000photographyCan Photographers Be Plagiarists?David SegalThe case of the Nanpu Bridge.noCan Photographers Be Plagiarists?Can photographers be plagiarists?noClick here for a slide show about two similar shots of Shanghai's Nanpu Bridge..truenotochyperlinkno20072735152PMWednesdayFebFebruary152/7/2007 8:51:52 PM63306460312000000020072735418PMWednesdayFebFebruary152/7/2007 8:54:18 PM633064604580000000photographyRiver's EdgeThe 9/11 photograph you didn't see.noRiver's EdgeThe 9/11 photograph you didn't see.noIn his New York Times column yesterday (TimesSelect subscription required), Frank Rich discussed a photograph taken by Magnum photographer Thomas Hoepker on Sept. 11, 2001, showing a group of young people chatting on the Brooklyn waterfront, apparently indifferent to the scene of destruction across the river. Slate has reproduced the photograph below, which the Times did not print with the column.truenotochyperlinkno200691151415PMMondaySepSeptember179/11/2006 9:14:15 PM632935916550000000200691151415PMMondaySepSeptember179/11/2006 9:14:15 PM632935916550000000photographyDon't Believe What You See in the PapersJim LewisThe untrustworthiness of news photography.noDon't Believe What You See in the PapersWhy you can't trust news photography.noThere's an old joke about a Southern preacher who's asked by a skeptical congregant if he really believes in infant baptism. "Believe in it?" the preacher replies. "Why, I've seen it done!" I thought of the preacher when I heard the latest in photojournalism's long line of mini-scandals, this one involving a Lebanese freelancer named Adnan Hajj who was working in Beirut. Hajj altered at least two photographs: In one he cloned a plume of smoke rising from buildings that Israeli planes had bombed; in another he altered the image of an Israeli F-16 to make it look like it was dropping more ordnance than it was. Both pictures were bought by Reuters, which sent them out on its photo service. When the forgeries were pointed out, the agency pulled the pictures, dismissed the photographer, and issued a statement asserting that such fakery had no place in the news business.truenotochyperlinkno200681054805PMThursdayAugAugust178/10/2006 9:48:05 PM632908288850000000200681054805PMThursdayAugAugust178/10/2006 9:48:05 PM632908288850000000photographyExploit and ClickJim LewisThe fuss over the photographer who makes kids cry.noExploit and ClickThe fuss over the photographer who makes kids cry.noLike many people, I dislike having my picture taken, and the fact that I love to look at photography, to think about it, and sometimes to write about it, has done little to leaven my antipathy toward participating in it. Having a camera pointed at me makes me self-conscious, a feeling I do my best to avoid; and it pricks my vanity. (I used to tell myself I was simply unphotogenic, but in time I came to realize that, no, in fact I just look like that.) Moreover, I always wind up feeling slightly violated: My countenance is among my most intimate possessions, and when a photographer makes off with an image of it I feel like I've been fleeced. Anthropologists have described isolated tribes who would not allow themselves to be photographed by Western visitors because they were convinced that some part of their soul was being stolen. There is something to be said for such a belief.truenotochyperlinkno20067763544PMFridayJulJuly187/7/2006 10:35:44 PM63287894144000000020067763544PMFridayJulJuly187/7/2006 10:35:44 PM632878941440000000200311442710PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:27:10 PM631781584300000000200311442710PMTuesdayJanJanuary161/14/2003 9:27:10 PM631781584300000000falsetruetruetruetruetruetrue20011018111443PMThursdayOctOctober2310/19/2001 3:14:43 AM631390436830000000200181561559PMWednesdayAugAugust188/15/2001 10:15:59 PM631334961590000000