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Peter Hatzipavlis 08/13/2015 In the Press

Photojournalist Michael Kamber talks about the exhibition Altered Images that he curated recently for the Bronx Documentary Centre.

The exhibition deals with the history of manipulated documentary photography and the looming crisis in contemporary photojournalism caused by a lack of training in ethics for young photographers.

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The enclosed is an image that will be the subject of the Bronx Documentary Center's upcoming exhibition Altered Images: 150 Years of Posed and Manipulated Documentary Photography as well as other related programming. The BDC makes no representations nor extends any rights as to use of this image by another party. South Dakota Badlands 1936 Photo by Arthur Rothstein Caption as taken from the Library of Congress website, June 2015: "The bleached skull of a steer on the dry sun-baked earth of the South Dakota Badlands." Background information on this photo: Arthur Rothstein, a photographer for the Farm Security Administration, moved and photographed a steer skull at several locations in South Dakota during a severe drought in the region. Several frames of this exist, all showing different backgrounds. After one of the photos was distributed by the Associated Press, Republican opponents of President Roosevelt seized on the opportunity and articles about the staging of this photo were published in conservative newspapers around the country. The filmmaker and writer Errol Morris wrote in The New York Times: "In Arthur Rothstein’s photograph of a sun-bleached cow skull, Roosevelt’s opponents had found their proof of government waste, duplicity and fraud." In an interview with Rothstein in 1964, he states that he was using the skull for "exercises in photography," experimenting with "the texture of the skull, the texture of the earth, the cracks in the soil, the lighting" and "how the lighting changed from the east to the west as the sun went down." He claims that he "had not taken the picture in the first place as an example of New Deal propaganda" and that he "had not taken the picture with the idea of it being used as a symbol of the drought." Links to articles about this controversy: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/the-case-of-the-inappropriate-alarm-clock-part-1/ https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/08/22/steer-skull-badlands-south-dakot Image: Arthur Rothstein, The bleached skull of a steer on the dry sun-baked earth of the South Dakota Badlands, 1936

 

 

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