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“Cultural observers started voicing serious concerns.”
An example, from longtime photo editor and photos-in-media expert Fred Ritchin (excerpted from a 2023 interview):
FRED RITCHIN: “Our visual media has changed enormously. The sad thing is we’ve done almost nothing in the journalistic industry to preserve the credibility of the photograph. . . .
“If you go into a bookstore, you ask for a nonfiction or fiction book, they know what you’re talking about. What’s a nonfiction photograph? What’s a fiction photograph? How much can a photograph be manipulated before it ceases to be a photograph? We are not addressing those things.”
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“I also think publications have to be very clear on their own code of ethics. . . . We have to come up with new standards, so the reader knows immediately: this is a photograph, or this is a synthetic image, or something else....
“Keep working day by day to restore trust. Photographs are increasingly going to fade away and diminish unless we act quickly. And I think we’re going to be much the worse for not having them.”
