Mr Morgan edited the Daily Mirror from 1995 until 2004, when he was dismissed after the newspaper published staged pictures of Iraqi prisoners being abused by British soldiers.
And staged pictures of women in Chinese theater makeup in Beijing apartments by the Finnish-born photographer Saana Wang underscore tension between tradition and modernity.
And your point that the magazine often runs staged pictures is actually a further clue to Times readers that Mr. Serrano's work was staged.
There were no staged pictures on Wimbledon rooftops and after hitting at Aorangi Park with Finnish coach Kimi Tiilikainen, he declined to speak even with Polish journalists detailed to document his every move.
So one can identify a shift towards photographing the aftermath of conflict, rather than the action; towards composed tableaux more similar to the staged pictures favoured by the art world.
His paintings are informed by the constructed imagery of Philip-Lorca DiCorcia and Tina Barney, in which staged pictures have the look of spontaneity, the people illuminated in midsentence, midaction, frozen in piqued alienation.
