The Age Celebrates 100 Years Of Photography With A Nude Upskirt Oops

Did you know The Age was celebrating a centenary of photojournalism? They are; three cheers, hip hip hip etc. This is, of course, a chance to upload a big, shiny multimedia special full of stirring shots from the past 100 years including incredible images of war, peace, sport, everyday life in Australia and just about everything including the kitchen sink.

The gallery and presentation can be found here, and there are some stunning shots held within.

So you can imagine our amusement when we saw the photo they’d chosen to sum up 100 years of photojournalistic greatness on the front page of TheAge.com.au:

It’s true, it’s a brilliant photo – in its original incarnation, at least, as taken by Angela Wyllie in 2005, the year the Melbourne Cup Carnival was whipped by strong winds – but two things are troubling us about its use on the front page.

Firstly, the fact that we scoured each of the “Century Of Pictures” galleries and failed to find it, and secondly, does TheAge.com.au really have such low expectations of its readership’s intelligence that they need to resort to tits’n'arse blasts to get hits on an otherwise thoughtfully-composed and fascinating photo special?