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New York Times issues correction for unflattering photo
The New York Times has issued a formal correction over a controversial photo of former Virginia Governor Mark Warner that ran on the cover of the New York Times Magazine on Sunday March 12th 2006. The correction stated “The cover photograph in The Times Magazine on Sunday rendered colors incorrectly for the jacket, shirt and tie worn by Mark Warner, the former Virginia governor who is a possible candidate for the presidency. The jacket was charcoal, not maroon; the shirt was light blue, not pink; the tie was dark blue with stripes, not maroon.”
In an interview on NPR Kathy Ryan the Photo Editor for the New York Times Magazine was quoted as saying “We shot this photo with a type of film that distorts the color and gives a stylistic tone almost like a campaign poster that we thought was interesting visually. In the end the film caused a change in the color of his clothing and we shouldn’t have done that because he is a newsworthy figure and it becomes a photo illustration”. After running the photo The New York Times was contacted by critics who say the unflattering picture could hurt Warner's political ambitions. Warner has been mentioned as a possible Democratic front-runner in the 2008 US presidential election.
Click here to view the correction issued by the New York Times.
Click here to listen to the interview with Kathy Ryan on NPR.
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post a comment »Melanie, March 24, 2006 [#]
If the artist (photographer) uses a certain type of film and makes colors ‘different’ than they were in reality, this photgraph, the endresult, IS the truth. It’s the artist’s truth, not the view of all newspaper readers or their opinion is, even tho the showed person is someone who is a ‘newsworthy’ figure. PLS what nonsense, the man should be happy to be in an art portrait instead in ‘just another newsphoto’.