Infrared film makes politician look sleazy

Recently I found this interesting controversy about a titel shot for the New York Times Magazine. Alexei Hay took this portrait of democratic presidental hopeful Mark Warner. Alexei Hay who is known as a fashion photographer for his great&sexy editorial in DUTCH magazine used a creative technique which the Mark Warner camp didn't seem to like at all and prompted a correction by the NYT:

Alexei Hay for "The New York Times"

Here's a description of the actual shooting (quoted from hamptonroads.com):

"In the midst of a series of digital shots, Qualls said, Hay pulled out a roll of film. “He said it was old film that they don’t make any more, that only 100 rolls exist and that he had to buy it directly from Kodak.” Once the roll was used up, the digital shots resumed.

The Times explained what happened next this way in an “Editor’s Note” adjacent to the March 15 corrections column.

“The cover photograph in The Times Magazine on Sunday rendered colors incorrectly for the jacket, shirt and tie worn by Mark Warner, the former Virginia governor who is a possible candidate for the presidency...

“The Times’s policy rules out alteration of photographs that depict actual news scenes and, even in a contrived illustration, requires acknowledgment in a credit. In this case, the film that was used can cause colors to shift, and the processing altered them further; the change escaped notice because of a misunderstanding by the editors.”

ah these tricky 70-millimeter used infrared chrome films, making everybody look just so sleazy...
The audio interview with New York Times Magazine photo editor Kathy Ryan can be found here: Link