Colorblind?

Here's an interesting choice. For a story headlined "The Color of Politics" in Feb. 4 issue of The New Yorker, editors ran a full-page photo of Barack Obama shaking hands with Newark, N.J., mayor Cory Booker. The photo was shot Jan. 9 by Scott Lituchy of the The Star-Ledger newspaper and licensed through Corbis.

It's a color image, but The New Yorker ran it in black-and-white. The New Yorker is a full-color magazine and often runs color pictures, so it's unlikely this was a production issue. Someone decided this presentation was stronger with the color removed.

Would you have made the same call?

Comments

[Stupid Photographer]

Nobody would ever trust me to make the call, but I would have never used the photo in the first place because of all the stupid photos out there, it can't possibly be the best choice, in color or b&w.