Photo Editing: Negative Effects
In Tom Ang’s Picture Editing: Second Edition, he discusses how picture editing is done and the hot debates over if photo editing is ethical or moral. Ang gives the reader a view of photo editing from not only the professionals point of view but from the reader or subject’s (person who was being photographed) point of view. Ang’s research covers from how pictures are edited and in what types of news, such as newspapers, magazines, or books, to the legality and social issues that could possibly come along with editing. This is crucial to analyzing if photo editing has a negative effect due to the fact that Ang’s book lacks bias on either side of the issue and goes behind the scenes to let the reader know exactly how and why there is editing in photojournalism; informing the public about sides of the issue they may have never considered before. Ang also includes examples of edited photographs, giving the reader an easier view of what is happening, rather than trying to just explain how an edited photograph can affect the public.
Works Cited
Ang, Tom. Picture Editing: Second Edition. Oxford: Focal Press, 2000. Print.
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