MS Thesis; How is an Image Chosen?

Hello Everyone. I am working on my MS Thesis in Photography. It’s covering the process Editors and Photographers go through to choose images for publication and any psychological ramification those images have on the viewing public, if any. I’m looking for photojournalists and editors to interview. Ideally, I’d like to be able to show images (the published images as well as the unpublished ones from the same story) to a group of viewers. So I’d like to be able to use the images, both in the study and the published thesis (with permission, of course).

I’m also searching for the exact wording of the 1991 Pentagon Policy that states no imagery of US coffins on US military transports and/or bases can be taken and published. I’ve seen people use it, but have yet to find the ACTUAL policy. Can anyone help me? Feel free to reply to me off list as well. Thanks in advance!

Please, if anyone can point me in the correct direction, and/or is willing to be a part of my thesis project, please contact me.
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kdecker@lightsplash.com

Thank you!
Kati Decker

by Kati Decker at Wed Jan 18 08:18:23 UTC 2006 (ed. Mar 12 2008) San Jose, CA, United States | Bookmark this | Digg this |

The Guardian Newspaper just had the Observer Hodge Award exhibit in London, UK where they had an interactive display which recreates the job of a photo editor. So the public got to see which photos were considered for different stories and then they got to pick which image they thought was eventually published. Then they are told why they are right or wrong….was very fun. You can email the place where the exhibit was at newsroom@ guardian.co.uk maybe they have an online version….

by Pauline von Moltke | 23 Jan 2006 15:01 | Toronto, Canada |

Hi, Kati,

Have you already looked at Walker Evans at Work and Jim Marshall: Proof?

W

P.S. Enjoyed looking at your web site.

by Wayne E. Yang | 23 Jan 2006 19:01 (ed. Jan 23 2006) |

I have not looked at those 2 publications. Thank you! I’ll be researching those now. The Observer Hodge Award exhibit sounds facinating. Thank you! I’ll email them this evening and hopefully they’ll have an online version. Anything else you can think of is always appreciated. I’m, a fan of too much information, rather than too little.

Thank you for the website encouragment as well :)

Kati

by Kati Decker | 23 Jan 2006 21:01 | San Jose, CA, United States |