By: E&P Staff The New York Times has deleted an online gallery of images by Edgar Martins of abandoned real estate projects, that it had published on Sunday in its magazine.
Charges surfaced that the images were digitally altered. A blogger who spotted the photos at
Metafilter may have tipped off the Times.
Late Wednesday an editor's note appeared on gallery page at the Times: "A picture essay in The Times Magazine on Sunday and an expanded slide show on NYTimes.com entitled 'Ruins of the Second Gilded Age' showed large housing construction projects across the United States that came to a halt, often half-finished, when the housing market collapsed. The introduction said that the photographer, a freelancer based in Bedford, England, 'creates his images with long exposures but without digital manipulation.'
"A reader, however, discovered on close examination that one of the pictures was digitally altered, apparently for aesthetic reasons. Editors later confronted the photographer and determined that most of the images did not wholly reflect the reality they purported to show. Had the editors known that the photographs had been digitally manipulated, they would not have published the picture essay, which has been removed from NYTimes.com."
Earlier, at that page, the Times had posted a brief Web
notice states: "The pictures in this feature were removed after questions were raised about whether they had been digitally altered."
The paper had commissioned Martins, who is from Portugal, to travel around the U.S. and take photos on this theme. He even emphasized that photos were never altered.
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