Altering Photographs



             recording important happenings. Photographs were often taken during various.

             wars to record the events that took place and to show people who did not.

             fight what the war was like (Photography and War). The introduction of the.

             camera started its global influence based on its ability to be truthful, to.

             tell stories without written word and to record important occurrences.

             around the world. Overtime, its truthfulness has been questioned, but its.

             impact continues to be widespread. This important concept of photography.

             created new methods for many fields including crime investigation, record.

             keeping and the entertainment field.

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             Pictures are most often considered to be truthful and are.

             used as proof in many situations. However, photos can be tampered with,.

             causing their honesty to be trivial. Ever since the introduction of.

             applications such as Photoshop and iPhoto, photography has changed in both.

             negative and positive ways. Digital manipulation is being used on many.

             things today including advertisements, celebrities, and models and.

             sometimes without direct permission ("Photography").

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             Long quote Clearly, this has caused upset and controversy in the.

             media. For example, in a recent photo shoot with Vanity Fair, Kate.

             Winslet's body was tampered with and was altered to make her body more.

             "appealing" without consent from Winslet. (page 348) Also, in 1989 a photo.

             of Oprah Winfrey on the body of actress Ann-Margaret was used without the.

             permission of either celebrity. Although it seems that photo tampering.

             would be a fairly modern problem, manipulation of photos began earlier than.

             one might expect. An iconic photo of Abraham Lincoln's head on John.

             Calhoun's body was created around 1860. Other famous examples include.

             Hitler and Stalin who commonly air brushed their photos in order to remove.

             people they had falling outs with ("Photo Tampering throughout History").

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             In the 1980's the media adopted digital imaging.

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