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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

RIP Jane Goodall. My all-time favorite photo of Jane by Michael “Nick” Nichols…

Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

80 years ago today, Pvt. Bob Campbell shot this photo of the Iwo Jima flag raising. While Joe Rosenthal’s photo became iconic and won a @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social, Campbell’s version offers a unique, alternative angle on history.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Thinking of Cecil Stoughton and his $19.95 plaid coat on this Inauguration Day. Photos by Oliver Atkins...

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Tim LeRoy @dirtmeetsthewater.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I missed this sensational picture of the late president Carter lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda by Andrew Harnik. It's a gem of light and composition, and knowingly nods to previous works. Thanks to @patrickwitty.bsky.social's consitently brilliant Substack. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

This photo by Abbie Rowe from FDR's funeral train is why I write Field of View. I'd never seen it before going down the rabbit hole of Presidents lying in state in the Capitol Rotunda. The ghostly reflections have an American Gothic vibe.

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Monroe Gallery of Photography @monroegallery.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

AP Report: Investigating claims around ‘The Terror of War’ photograph www.ap.org/wp-content/u...

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Herb Scribner @herbscribner.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

AP Report: Investigating claims around ‘The Terror of War’ photograph www.ap.org/about/ap-rep...

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AP Report: Investigating claims around ‘The Terror of War’ photograph | The Associated Press

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Revisiting some past photos from the Rotunda for FoV and came across this one of JFK lying in state by George Mobley for the Geographic. That beam of light.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles looks like a war zone. Outstanding work by Ethan Swope for @apnews.com.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

The new TIME features a previously unseen photo of Jimmy Carter by Yousuf Karsh from 1981.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

RIP Jimmy Carter. Photographs by Richard Avedon, 1976 and 2004. patrickwitty.substack.com/p/the-portra...

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Also, the sweater Lee Harvey Oswald was wearing when Jack Ruby shot him was BLACK, not maroon.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

There's a viral tweet kicking around comparing these two photos: Luigi Mangione by Charly Triballeau and Lee Harvey Oswald by Jack Beers. It's a perp walk. That's where the similarities end. patrickwitty.substack.com/p/the-perp-w...

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Football photography fans: Celebrate the anniversary of the legendary "Immaculate Reception" with this deep dive into the iconic moment, and others...featuring Harry Cabluck, Al Bello, and @shortlittlekidd.bsky.social patrickwitty.substack.com/p/the-legacy...

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Here's my deep dive into perp walk photos, with appearances by Ted Kaczynski, Timothy McVeigh, John Hinckley Jr., Son of Sam (photo by Robert McElroy), and of course Luigi Mangione... patrickwitty.substack.com/p/the-perp-w...

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The front pages of today's @wsj.com (huge photo of Luigi Mangione by Mike Nagle) and @nytimes.com (no mention of Luigi Mangione). Bizarre.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Luigi Mangione's NYC debut gives off Timothy McVeigh vibes in this perp walk photo by Stephanie Keith for Getty Images. NYC police photog on the right, creating some "content."

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Hard to believe José Gaytán's eclipse photo hasn't made it into any "Photos of the Year" galleries. A remarkable moment...

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Went way down the rabbit hole last night and found this photo of Charles Manson and a very well-known photographer, a legend...can anyone name him?

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Some great work in the @nytimes.com Year in Pictures, but the photos from Gaza are highly sanitized, lacking the raw reality of war. Here's one of many photos taken by Ali Jadalla that should have been included... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Missing my friend Tim Zielenbach today...wanted to text him just now, "holy shit man you seen this one before? I hadn't. gotta be from the fbi, no?"

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Just ran across this gem of a photo by former TIME White House photographer Diana Walker. Mr. T and Nancy Reagan during the White House Christmas tour in 1983.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I've hit a wall...does anyone know who took these photos of Sirhan Sirhan on June 28, 1968? Long shot, I know, but thought I'd try.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Here's the photo the @nytimes.com used with a story about Luigi Mangione's extradition. Again, not a slight on the photographer, Rachel Wisniewski. The editors are choosing not so show his face. I do not understand photography anymore.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The @nytimes.com published a 3000 word article about Luigi Mangione and this is the photo they went with. Bizarre.

This is a meaningless photo of the backs of a bunch of white men's heads.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The @nytimes.com is deliberately choosing not to show Luigi Mangione's face, just as @kenklippenstein.bsky.social reported. Here’s the photo (by Rachel Wisniewski) they picked for their latest story about Mangione. This is so weird.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Behind the scenes photo of Platon by Margo Martin, Trump's Dep Dir of Comms

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Platon also made this controversial portrait of President Bill Clinton for Esquire back in 2000—his body language says it all. Imagine the same approach with Trump.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

The American flag is a recurring motif in Platon's portraiture. Donald Trump in 2024 for @time.com, Edward Snowden in 2014 for @wired.com.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

With dramatic events unfolding in Georgia and Syria, those "Best Photos of 2024" lists need updating...photo from Georgia by Daro Sulakauri; photo from Syria by Ugur Yildirim #photojournalism

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Bravo @theatlantic.com for including Hatem Khaled's photo from Gaza. None of the other year-end galleries have done so. www.theatlantic.com/photo/2024/1...

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Luigi Mangione’s mugshot, via the PA Department of Corrections. He's wearing a suicide prevention smock.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Ugur Yıldırım's photos from the Syria are incredible... www.instagram.com/yildirim.ugur/

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Ghaith Alsayed is capturing history in Syria for @apnews.com. Follow him on IG... #syria www.instagram.com/ghaith.alsay...

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Rami Jarrah @ramijarrah.com · 07/12/2024

BREAKING: An uprising is now taking place in Arbin of Damascus, where residents are tearing down pictures of Assad.

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John A. Carlos II @jac2photo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Godspeed to another photojournalist… may you find your peace in the great beyond.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Like it or not, Trump will be TIME's Person of the Year...again. In 2016, Nadav Kander photographed him for the cover––wonder who'll get the call this year?

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Twitter/X hosts some of the most gratuitous click-bait graphically violent content I've ever seen, yet I post a tribute to a photojournalist who was killed and get flagged. The monetization of engagement has killed social media.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Spend some time with Anas Alkharboutli's work on IG. In a sea of disposable noise from "content creators" and influencers his work stood apart—urgent, meaningful, and human. A tragic loss. www.instagram.com/anasalkharbo...

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Speaking of the Supreme Court, the group portraits of them are always so weird and revealingly awkward. I gotta do some digging on these for FoV. This one is by Erin Schaff for the nyt...

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Devastating...Syrian photographer Anas Alkharboutli was killed today in an air strike near Hama. These are some of his last photographs, posted yesterday on Instagram... RIP 🙏🏻

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Out of the blue, thinking about my dad today. He died when I was 19. Truck driver, mechanic, small business owner, father of seven. I was too young or I'd have given him shit for that hideous faring/windshield on that Honda.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Oleg Petrasiuk's photo of a Ukrainian soldier playing a piano, featured in CNN's Year in Pictures, echoes a theme I wrote about in Field of View a while back...fits nicely patrickwitty.substack.com/p/the-soldie...

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