Photoshopping Through History - Examples of photo editing from 1800s to today
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#2The really interesting page is here: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/research.html
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#3See www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11313738 for a recent example
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#4There's one nice story in a novel by Kundera in which in Czechoslovakia (60s ?) the dictator was giving a speech and as it started to snow someone from his entourage lent him his hat. Years later that person fell out of favor and was removed from photographs of that speech, only his hat survived on the dictator's head.
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#5Interesting that in the 1900's there were a good number of pictures with people removed. Not so much in the other periods.
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#6There's one nice story in a novel by Kundera in which in Czechoslovakia (60s ?) the dictator was giving a speech and as it started to snow someone from his entourage lent him his hat. Years later that person fell out of favor and was removed from photographs of that speech, only his hat survived on the dictator's head.
It's 40s but otherwise correct http://www.talkswindon.org/index.php?topic=5471.0
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#7It does seem to have gone too much the other way though - magazines doing a complete hair-shirt act because somebody made a cover image which is obviously meant to be a cartoon ie adding the floor shadow to an election booth, or the highway signs to the politician's coat.
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#8Note: Many of the photos are clickable to show the source material next to the doctored photo.
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#9Interesting that in the 1900's there were a good number of pictures with people removed. Not so much in the other periods.
It happened for millenia before that, people were chiseled out of Egyptian and Roman monuments by later rulers.
Paintings were also 'improved'. Washington didn't cross the Delaware standing up in an overcrowded boat striking a heroic pose while everybody else fended off icebergs - or at least if he did he was an idiot.
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#10The Harper's one bewilders me. One of the Marines is faded out, as if he were symbolically missing. That people would misconstrue that as "these pictured Marines are AWOL or deserters" worries me.