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Re: Digital photojournalism



> A newspaper photog said
> that every D.C. print photog, save one, who shot Clinton hugging
> Monica Lewinsky was shooting digitally. The sole film photog had
> a negative that was retrievable when the news of the president's
> dalliances came to light.

And

> So, aside from the apocryphal nature of this story (and I
> have no idea if
> it's true or not)

To paraphrase Tweety-Bird "it's twue!, it's twue!".
Click on the link below. It will take you to an online article by the
photographer who shot the picture and the circumstances behind finding it.
Quite an interesting article. The Photohst listserv recently had a long
thread discussing the issue of digital photographs and the ability to
properly archive them.
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue9807/editorial.htm

And to forestall any questions about the Photohst listserv here is the link
to their archives . (you can also subscribe to it from there)
http://lists.asu.edu/archives/photohst.html


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Joseph [mailto:sabucat@SABUCAT.COM]
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 10:34 PM
> To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject: Digital photojournalism
>
>
> In response to a posting on an NG regarding the New Yorker article on
> newsprint preservation, I received the following:
>
>
> Some of my print news photographer brethren are decrying the
> lack of archivability of digital photojournalism. After they
> have shot a couple of hundred photos on a disk, its content has
> to be dumped to a hard drive so that it can be rewritten. The
> necessary file size makes it impractical to save every photo,
> hence many incidental shots get erased. A newspaper photog said
> that every D.C. print photog, save one, who shot Clinton hugging
> Monica Lewinsky was shooting digitally. The sole film photog had
> a negative that was retrievable when the news of the president's
> dalliances came to light. The digital shots of them had all long
> since been erased.
>
>
> So, aside from the apocryphal nature of this story (and I
> have no idea if
> it's true or not), it does bring up the question:
>
> Is most professional photojournalism today digital
> photography?  Or is it
> still film?  And if digital, is it true that most of it is
> being disposed of?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff Joseph
> SabuCat Production
> http://www.sabucat.com
>
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