RE: NY Post Runs Cover Photo of Man About to Die

[Dona Tracy <donatracy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't often post but I enjoy seeing everyone's photos and reading the threads. This one today got my attention. To me there is a question of ethics. The photographer may have had a knee jerk response to record that awful event. But in my opinion the Newspaper never should have published it. It is unethical (because they can doesn't mean they should) and pure sensationalism with total disregard for the man's family and our community in general. It is not going to win any prizes, capture a moment in history or contribute anything whatsoever to society. And I do not believe for a second the photographer was using his camera to warn the train.

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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2012 14:28:16 -0800
From: randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: NY Post Runs Cover Photo of Man About to Die
To: photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

The roll of a journalist is to record history. All history in all situations.   Without those pictures of those people falling to their dealths events might well be forgot or changed as most oral and writen history does in western culture.

 

Randy S. Little
http://www.rslittle.com

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2325729/

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Randy Little <randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is a question posed to the pj students at rit.

On Dec 4, 2012 1:39 PM, "Christopher Strevens" <christopher.strevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

A picture of a woman falling down a cliff after jumping as a suicide was taken and published in the British press a few years ago. It was taken from a ship off beachy head.

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From: Andrew Davidhazy
Sent: 04/12/2012 21:28
To: List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students
Subject: Re: NY Post Runs Cover Photo of Man About to Die

Very sad event indeed. Not sure what I would do ...but maybe instead of trying to get up on platform I would have instructed him to lie down between rails ... I think some people who had fallen were saved that way. 

This photograph reminds me of a similar scene, B&W Pulitzer photo I think, of a girl falling to her death from jumping from a burning building ... I think that is it but not positive. Were any 9/11jump  victims photographed?

Andy

On Dec 4, 2012, at 4:12 PM, John Palcewski wrote:

New York is abuzz over the Post's front page photo of a man on a subway track about to be run over.    The photographer claims that he was using his camera flash in an attempt to alert the subway train's conductor, to save the guy, actually.   

 

The big question is:  what would YOU do if you were on that platform, with your camera, and had only about ten seconds to respond?  

 

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/nightmare_on_subway_tracks_GgvCtkeJj6cTeyxHns2VNP