Is Seeing Believing?
Recommended Books
Photoshop Forensics (Nov. 2007)
Image
Ethics in The Digital Age (Nov.2003) University of Minnesota Press, ISBN
0816638241
Underexposed: Censored
Pictures and Hidden History, edited
by Colin Jacobson
ISBN: 1903399211 Publisher: Vision On
The victor's account of history may be the one that is recorded, but
photojournalism
still has the power to undermine the official version. Such is the
corrective testimony
of this startling collection of banned, suppressed or conveniently
forgotten news images
depicting moments from the last century where the propaganda needs of
politicians,
despots and stars clashed with sometimes awkward, sometimes horrifying
truths.
Incorporating images and text from the Index On Censorship and the
Hulton Getty
Picture Collection, the images represent a reality check on alleged
events from the
last hundred years, documenting a power struggle with rival cultural
forces of media
and information. Reclaimed from the trash cans of the Second World War,
Hitler's
preening speech rehearsals come back to argue with his self-made myth.
From the
cruelty of Stalin's Russia to fundamentalist chaos in Iran, via
disgruntled starlets,
ecological destruction and US nuclear tests, Underexposed gathers some
of the
most ideologically dangerous photographs ever taken and releases them to
haunt
the increasingly manipulated, retouched present. With an incisive
forward by Colin
Jacobson, the book is a seminal work for all those curious about what
lies beneath
the last century's layers of spin.
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Picturing
the Past: Media, History, and Photography
http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s99/brennen.html
Phototruth or Photofiction: Ethics and Media Imagery in the Digital Age
Author: Thomas H. Wheeler ISBN: 0-8058-4261-6
Publisher: Erlbaum
Photo Fakery The History and Techniques of Photographic Deception and
Manipulation
Author: Dino A. Brugioni ISBN: 1-57488-166-3
Publisher: Brassey's
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