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This just in from our WTF department:
Thomas E. Witte, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Kevin Leas, Photographer, Assistant
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Rochester | NY | USA | Posted: 7:49 AM on 04.11.09 |
| ->> What, you're saying you don't get mistaken for a zombie and punched in the face on a regular basis? Man, you haven't lived a day in your life! |
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Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer
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Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 7:58 AM on 04.11.09 |
->> "With my daughter at the airport I was startled by a paparazzo, who I quite understandably mistook for a zombie," he said.
Not that hard to understand! |
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Rob Dicker, Photographer
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Lake Villa | IL | USA | Posted: 8:23 AM on 04.11.09 |
| ->> PDSD - Post Dramatic Stress Disorder. I've seen so many actors crack under the pressue of a heavy shooting schedule. |
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Keith Simonian, Photographer
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Martinez | CA | USA | Posted: 10:30 AM on 04.11.09 |
->> From the story.
"Woody, this is assault. Woody, this is assault," the photographer is heard saying. "Woody, chill out. Would you please chill out?"
The photographer continues to follow Harrelson for another four minutes as the actor and his daughter walk to the airport parking lot."
Maybe if the guy had stopped following Woody, he might have chilled out.
But had the photographer done that, he would have missed the all important Woody Harrelson landing at an airport with his daughter story. |
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Andrew Brosig, Photographer
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Crowley | TX | United States | Posted: 10:40 AM on 04.11.09 |
| ->> I'm not sure I get it. Yeah, GWCs like that guy can be annoying and can give photojournalism a bad name. But that doesn't mean having a camera automatically paints a target on someone and makes it right to assault them. I also question the logic of saying Mr. H. "naturally thought it was a zombie." That's not an anger management issue, it's a reality management issue. |
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Kyle Green, Photographer
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Roanoke | VA | USA | Posted: 12:51 PM on 04.11.09 |
->> Haven't seen the video...but bet it went something like this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWbRLSwkG9U
Seriously though...I shot Woody about three years ago for a story while in Portland, Oregon. He was a really nice guy...was very accommodating with his time and walked around Portland for an hour and a half with me. He stopped to talk and sign autographs for everyone who approached us. Seemed like such a gentle person. |
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Nic Coury, Photographer
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Monterey | CA | | Posted: 3:26 PM on 04.11.09 |
->> The photog was from TMZ, a very "legitimate" news agency.
These guys make a living trying to make celebs "go off" for the camera. |
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Mark Sutton, Photographer
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Herndon | VA | USA | Posted: 4:00 PM on 04.11.09 |
->> Kyle,
That was a good one.... |
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Nick Morris, Photographer
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San Marcos | CA | United States | Posted: 4:38 PM on 04.11.09 |
| ->> Andrew, that's NOT photojournalism dude! That's straight up GWC garbage and the guy deserved to be throttled! At a given point when you know a celeb won't talk with you or acknowledge you then pack it in and walk. I'd react the same way of some jackass was taunting me while walking through the airport like that. |
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Dave Amorde, Photographer
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Lake Forest | CA | USA | Posted: 3:12 AM on 04.12.09 |
->> "Moron vs. Wackjob"
I've seen that movie before. |
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Bradly J. Boner, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Jackson | WY | USA | Posted: 4:25 PM on 04.13.09 |
->> Nick - Getting a celeb to talk to you isn't really what these paparazzi are after. Do you have any idea how much that photographer was paid for his footage of Woody freaking out? Likely thousands, if not tens of thousands, so it's not in the photog's best interest to "pack it in and walk" just because the celeb doesn't talk to him.
The day people stop watching footage of celebs freaking out will be the day outlets like TMZ will stop paying thousands for it. Simple as that.
Unfortunately that day isn't going to come soon enough. |
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Bob Ford, Photographer
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Lehighton | Pa | USA | Posted: 2:39 PM on 04.14.09 |
->> "...the guy deserved to be throttled!"
While I agree that photojournalist and paparazzi are quite different, I wouldn't say the guy deserves to be throttled.
Quite often photojournalists have to take pictures of people who don't want their photos taken. Should this give the subjects the right to "throttle" us too? |
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Nick Morris, Photographer
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San Marcos | CA | United States | Posted: 2:59 PM on 04.14.09 |
| ->> Point well taken Bob. I do recall taking quite a few of those. Big Mac being one of them. Still to hound the guy like that is my point. I didn't pester Mark to get his shot I did my job and bailed. This guy... makes money by antagonizing people to their breaking point and then screams victim WTF? |
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Francis Specker, Photographer
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Riverside | CA | USA | Posted: 3:33 PM on 04.14.09 |
| ->> CNN and TMZ are owned by the same parent company, Time Warner. TMZ video photographers are usually full-time staff employees with regular press credentials. Now if an actor is in a Warner Bros. movie, they too are being paid by Time Warner. So maybe this all one big synergistic ball of publicity and marketing? |
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