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Censorship in Pictures
Cover of the book "Underexposed: Pictures can lie and liars use pictures" edited by Colin Jacobson Email to friend
View images from the book "Underexposed: Pictures Can Lie and Liars Use Pictures" edited by Colin Jacobson. Content may be uncomfortable to view
Exposure, aperture, light, composition, quick quick quick. Get the shot. Get it in. The work of a photojournalist, life seen through a lens, is complicated enough. Yet before an image appears in the paper, it has to be chosen, cropped and color-adjusted, analyzed by editors, and doctored by artists.
And all those judgments and all those manipulations that stand between us and the photographer, us and the subject, raise the question: do we see, are we seeing, what we were meant to see? Colin Jacobsen has pulled together a collection of photos and essays he calls "Underexposed: Pictures Can Lie and Liars Use Pictures."
They are the banned, altered, and unseen images of the 20th century, a different look through a darkened lens.
Colin Jacobson - former photo editor for a number of new magazines - including the Economist and the Independent, and Editor of the new book, Underexposed
Michele Stephenson, Director of Photography at Time magazine
and Paul Watson, Pulitzer Prize - winning journalist - currently the South Asian Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times.
Colin Jacobson, the way we look at pictures as though they had one fixed meaning is just ridiculous. listen
Paul Watson describes the scene he witnessed and recorded in Mogadishu, Somalia. listen
