John Filo

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name = John Paul Filo


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John Paul Filo (Natrona Heights, Pennsylvania) photographed the 1971 Pulitzer Prize winning photo of a 14-year-old runaway girl (Mary Ann Vecchio), crying while kneeling over the body of 20-year-old Jeffrey Miller, one of the victims of the Kent State shootings. At the time, Filo was a photojournalism student at Kent State University.

Bio

He continued his career in photojournalism, eventually rising to a picture editing job at the American weekly news magazine "Newsweek". He now is on staff in the communications department of CBS.cite web |date=May 4, 2000 Web posted at: 5:00 p.m. EDT| url = http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/5/4/filo/| title = Photographer John Filo discusses his famous Kent State photograph and the events of May 4, 1970| format = HTML | publisher = CNN| accessdate = 2007-07-27 | last=Filo, John ]

Taking the picture

The Kent State shootings occurred at Kent State University in the city of Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of students by members of the Ohio National Guard on Monday, May 4 1970. At the time John Filo was in the University student photography lab when the shots rang out. He quickly ran outside and below recalls what happened:

To take the picture John used a Nikkormat camera with Tri X film and most of the exposures were 1/500 between 5.6 and f 8 depending on if the sun was behind a cloud or not.

Altered photo

In the early 1970s, an anonymous editor airbrushed the fence post above Mary Ann Vecchio's head out of Filo's Pulitzer Prize Winner. Since then, the altered photo has circulated and has been reprinted in many magazines.cite web |date=Posted 2/12/2004 11:30 PM Updated 2/12/2004 11:33 PM| url = http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2004-02-12-kantor_x.htm| title = Image manipulation means seeing isn't believing| format = HTML | publisher = USA TODAY| accessdate = 2007-07-26 | last=Kantor, Andrew ] cite web |date=2000 | url = http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/digitaltampering/| title = Digital Tampering in the Media, Politics and Law| format = HTML | publisher = dartmouth.edu| accessdate = 2007-07-26 | last= ] cite web |date=Last Updated on 2007-02-17| url = http://www.famouspictures.org/mag/index.php?title=Kent_State_Shooting#Photo_Edit| title = Famous Pictures Magazine - Kent State Shooting| format = HTML | publisher = Famous Pictures Magazine| accessdate = 2007-07-26 | last=Lucas, Dean ] cite web |date=2000 | url = http://blog.wired.com/wiredphotos54/2007/05/smudged_away.html| title = Re-imaging History| format = HTML | publisher = wired.com| accessdate = 2007-07-26 | last=wired.com ] Numerous publications, including "Time" (Nov. 6, 1972, p. 23; Jan. 7, 1980, p. 45) and "People" (May 2, 1977, p. 37; April 30, 1990, p. 117), have used the altered image without knowing.cite web |date=2000 | url = http://www.zonezero.com/magazine/articles/meyer/06.html| title = MYSTERY OF THE MISSING POLE, SOLVED!| format = HTML | publisher = www.zonezero.com| accessdate = 2007-07-26 | last=David Friend Director of Photography at LIFE]

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