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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

Read more about the history of flags in photography, from Stanley Forman’s Soiling of Old Glory, to Yevgeny Khaldei’s Raising a Flag over the Reichstag… patrickwitty.substack.com/p/the-flag-i...

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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 · 26/01/2025

Hoang Van Cuong also made this photo of Nick Ut on that tragic day in Trang Bang.

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Patrick Witty @patrickwitty.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

And for the record, the photo of "the stringer" is a heavy crop of an image taken by Hoang Van Cuong. He deserves credit too...

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

I'll take flourescent ANY day over LED. The worst.

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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

That led me to this one, by Bob Gomel. Tungsten forever.

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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 · 26/12/2024

Oswald's sweater was black. That's (one of the many) problems with "colorized" photos.

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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 · 24/12/2024

The graphic violence on that platform will have profound and lasting effects on people. I've seen the worst of the worst throughout my career as a photo editor and am shocked daily. And it's monetized.

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

Ugh sorry! My apologies...that version was was taken by Brennan Asplen. Here is yours...

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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

Yep, Bob Jackson's photo is in there...the holy grail of perp walks

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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

I take that back, there was way less firepower guarding McVeigh. Ralf-Finn Hestoft made the cover of TIME with one of his photos...

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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

Neil Leifer indeed...he made one of the most fascinating photos of Charles Manson for @time.com. Look at that makeshift TV remote.

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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

For those who are interested - turns out this photo was taken by Chuck Choney, an FBI agent. Big thanks to Hanna at the Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum.

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

On a tight deadline, for sure. But I'm getting there

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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

How/why? I was researching a photographer, Ira Schwarz, who made an image of Hinckley after his arrest and along the way, I discovered that Ira had won a World Press Photo award for his version of Mr. T with the First Lady which then led me to Diana's photo, and so on.

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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

Do you think it's impossible to figure it out or am I missing something

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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

They're gonna do a million stories on the guy, so visually mixing it up some makes sense. But this is absurd. And exactly what they were told to do.

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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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