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

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When I was 18, I shot a picture of a cop bleeding out on a city street after being shot by a fleeing gunman. My PJ partner if you want to call him that, grabbed my film and raced off to UPI with it and the next few days it ran in 275 papers across the US, Asia, and Europe. I got almost nothing for the uses, and my friend and I never spoke again. Best of all, UPI never credited me. 

Why did I take the shot? I was scared. I had never seen a person die a violent death right in front of me. Now that I’m older, I would do it again, but now it would be with my iPhone and because I can no longer run.


Jan


On Dec 4, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Randy Little wrote:

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





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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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?  
 
 
 




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