Doctored Photo
Original Photo
Is Seeing Believing?
Images from War
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Aug.6, 2006
Reuters on Sunday withdrew a photo of smoke
rising from burning buildings after an Israeli air strike on
the suburbs
of Beirut on August 5, 2006 after evidence emerged that it had been
manipulated to show more smoke.
The manipulated image is shown
on the left. The unaltered image, shown on the right, has since run.
Reuters has
told the photographer, freelance Adnan Hajj, that the
agency will not use any more of his pictures Related stories:
Blogger story
Reuters news followup
Can we trust war photos?
Doctored war photos
ignites controversy
Reuters editor: Cloning tool shouldn't be used to
alter photos
A Blogger Shines
When News Media Get it Wrong
Watch
video on Photo Fraud
Don't Believe What You See in the Papers (The untrustworthiness of news
photography.)
In Wars, Quest for Media Balance Is Also a
Battlefield
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Daily Mirror Admits Photos Were Manipulated (May 2004) |
A Picture is no longer worth a
thousand words;
Which photo is the real thing?
No one knows for sure in the age of Photoshop. (from salon.com)
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Parody of "Star Wars" movie poster; from Mad magazine Students should be encouraged to explain how this parody resembles a real |
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From website about Civil war era photographer Alexander Gardner:
It should also be added, however, that amongst the genuine pictures of the
war
there appear to be a few which are contrived, further proof that whilst the camera
cannot lie, the person behind it can! For
example, when Gardner arrived at the decisive
scene of the war at Gettysburg two days after it had been fought, he set about
photographing "Home of a rebel sharpshooter." However, before taking the picture
he had dragged the body of a Confederate some
thirty metres to where he lies in the picture,
turning the head towards the camera.
Source: http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/gardner.htm
 Sharpshooter's Den Photo |
The Case of the
Moved Body? Does the Camera Ever Lie? Civil War http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cwpcam/cwcam3.html Another article Critically Viewing Photographs: Civil War, Lesson Plan |
See the History Channel
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