Fred Ritchin is the director of PixelPress.org, a former editor at the New York Times, and the author of several books. He served as Associate Professor of photography and communications at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He has been widely quoted on the difficulty of verifying whether photographs accurately depict events in the digital age.
After Photography: W.W. Norton & Co. (December 17, 2008)
In Our Own Image: The Coming Revolution in Photography (Aperture, 1990 [reissued 1999]). *Co-author of An Uncertain Grace: The Photographs of Sebastiao Salgado (Aperture, 1990)
In Our Time: The World As Seen by Magnum Photographers (W. W. Norton, 1989)
Mexico Through Foreign Eyes, 1850-1990 (W. W. Norton, 1993).