French newspaper removes all images in support of photographers

French newspaper Libération removes all images in support of photography

http://www.bjp-online.com …-support-of-photographers

Your thoughts, should they of done this or carried on with publishing images for this day? Assuming its only for a day

I agree with it. Just my 2 cents.

Cool idea! Most people don't realize the value of a good photo, and just take it for granted.

I think this would be the perfect response to those who continually say that they have "no budget for photographers"

Good idea.

I agree with it.

It's kind of Eerie looking at a paper, with white spots where the photos should be.

What an excellent idea.

while I like the idea and what they are trying to accomplish, I started to think about the newspapers from the 1800s and early 1900s
http://mediad.publicbr​oadcasting.net …212/Nytimes06-29-1914.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.c​om …/s1600/royal_ga​zette.jpeg

taemo wrote in post #16453675
while I like the idea and what they are trying to accomplish, I started to think about the newspapers from the 1800s and early 1900s
http://mediad.publicbr​oadcasting.net …212/Nytimes06-29-1914.jpg
http://3.bp.blogspot.c​om …/s1600/royal_ga​zette.jpeg

Yes, but they don't have white spots where the pictures should be, do they ?

Also, at the time, Newspapers were one of the only ways to get news, nowadays we have the Internet, Tv, and newspapers.
Good photos will encourage readers to actually read the story under the photo.

Echo63 wrote in post #16453881
Yes, but they don't have white spots where the pictures should be, do they ?

Also, at the time, Newspapers were one of the only ways to get news, nowadays we have the Internet, Tv, and newspapers.
Good photos will encourage readers to actually read the story under the photo.

well who's fault is it then that they left white spots on the newspaper
they could have easily removed the empty spots and replaced them with other news instead

while I see your point of good photos encouraging readers to read, to me it's more important having a catchy title and better writing that photos.
the photo is not supposed to give you the news, the words do.
I ignore some photos in newspaper all the time time because the topic doesn't interest me, I don't look at them to critique

same with TV and radio, sometimes I'm doing something else while just simply listening.

taemo wrote in post #16453933
well who's fault is it then that they left white spots on the newspaper
they could have easily removed the empty spots and replaced them with other news instead

while i see your point of good photos encouraging readers to read, to me it's more important having a catchy title and better writing that photos.
the photo is not supposed to give you the news, the words do.

same with TV and radio, sometimes I'm doing something else while just simply listening.

Images and text work together to tell a story. They aren't novels where the reader's imagination is meant to fill in the details.

yes and a newspaper main job still is.. to give the news

my point is, you can get the latest news or read newspapers sans pictures

taemo wrote in post #16453951
yes and a newspaper main job still is.. to give the news

my point is, you can get the latest news or read newspapers sans pictures

Indeed you can.

somebody goes around house-to-house carrying a bunch of printed papers with (or without) pictures?

I heard they did that years ago in the old analog era

watt100 wrote in post #16454836
somebody goes around house-to-house carrying a bunch of printed papers with (or without) pictures?

I heard they did that years ago in the old analog era

They still do that in the digital era