“Having been a photo editor of the New York Times I worried about the credibility of pictures” Fred Ritchin told a packed audience at Aperture’s bookstore this past November while speaking on what inspired him to write his classic book of essays, recently reissued, In Our Own Image, “The idea of fact… of reference points, we don’t have them any more.”

In this three part podcast of Fred Ritchin and Brian Palmer’s public program, Ritchin talks about everything from plagarized journalism to Photoshop to the democratization of photojournalism in the digital age. When Brian Palmer, Ritchin’s colleague at NYU as well as a photojournalist asked Ritchin to discuss his hopes for the future of photojournalism, in his answer Ritchin muses “If one believes that people want the authentic at some level, you know either you want to fall in love, or you want to believe in god, or you want to eat something that’s real or you want to take a walk in the breeze, there’s something authentic that people want then why should imaging be outside the pale. Imaging also can be authentic, should be authentic.”

You can listen to the Fred Ritchin in Conversation with Brian Palmer Podcast here:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

To Download Parts 1 – 3 of the podcast click on the links below:
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Tags: Brian Palmer, Fred Ritchin, In Our Own Image

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