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A number of people have emailed asking how we learned the National Archives had altered the photo from the 2017 Women’s March. The short answer is: chance. The little bit longer answer I’ll explain in this thread. 1/?
I was at the Archives earlier this week for a totally unrelated story about tourists coming to the Archives look at the Constitution (a story I still hope to write). On the same floor there is the Women’s Suffrage exhibit with this very large photo at the entrance 2/?
I stopped to look at it. As I was trying to read some of the signs the marchers were carrying, I noticed one was blurred out. I thought that was odd and so I looked more closely at the rest of the image and saw other signs that had been blurred. So I took the photocredit info 3/?
and walked back to my office and found the original photo online. Our photo editor, Mark Miller, printed it out for me. I took it back to the Archives to compare against the one on display and that’s how I determined what had been changed. Then I contacted the Archives. - End -
I should add, while this story was mostly due to chance, it’s much easier if people send me tips for stories. I always like those - good news or bad. DMs open
Back at my desk this afternoon. Here’s the original photo that Mark Miller printed out for me to take and check against the Archives version. Our notes/arrows are scribbled on it (we had trouble spelling lenticular)pic.twitter.com/3UnVHUOdqc
Updating this thread with our story on the latest action and statement from the Archiveshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/local/national-archives-replaces-altered-womens-march-photo-with-original-version/2020/01/23/e910a5c2-3e05-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html …
This is messed up. Conservatives complain that removing confederate symbols is erasing history and here is somebody in gov literally erasing parts of public photos.
Great point dc.
Thank you
Lev Parnas not cut out from pics yet? All is good...
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