Can you believe your eyes? People have manipulated images since before the invention of photography. Today's digital technology has simply made it easier and more common than ever.
New York Times Upfront › Vol. 142 Nbr. 6, November 2009
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Can you believe your eyes? People have manipulated images since before the invention of photography. Today's digital technology has simply made it easier and more common than ever.
How amazing the first photographic images must have been to their early-19th-century viewers-the crisp, unassailable reality of people and events, without the filter of an artist's paintbrush. And what an opportunity for manipulation. It didn't take long for schemers to discover that with a little skill and imagination, photographic realism could be used to create manufactured realities.
"The very nature of photography was to record events," ...See the full content of this document
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