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KEY QUOTES
“ The
assumption a lot of people make is,
well, pictures don’t lie — you can
believe what you see,” said Santiago
Lyon, director of photography for the
Associated Press. “But of course
pictures can lie, and they do lie, and
they’ve been manipulated for a long
time.” (Source)
"Any media that employ digitally doctored photographs will have a stronger
effect than merely influencing our opinion -- by tampering with our
malleable memory, they may ultimately change the way we recall history,"
University of Padua researcher Dario Sacchi-- upon
release of a study on how people's recollection of historical events
is affected by digitally altered news images.
INTRODUCTION Note to educators:
"Is Seeing Believing?" is the title of a curriculum I discovered at the
Newseum, a museum of news in Washington DC.
It deals with the manipulation of photographic images in news,
history,
and culture. I became fascinated by this topic, so I devoted this web
site to it.
Throughout history the photograph has been manipulated for various
purposes.
It is important for students to understand those purposes and to learn
how to
question images they find in media and on the Internet.
Here you will find a number of contemporary examples of the "digital
manipulation of images" as well as links to articles about the ethics
and the
issue.
A good starting point for students might be the handout "Key
Questions," which
helps them use critical thinking skills as they analyze the images.
Let me know what you think of this resource.
fbaker1346@aol.com
NOTE: Special thanks to Theresa Redmond, Visual Arts educator (Peoples
Academy Middle Level in Morrisville VT) for sharing her
Webquest and
Powerpoint on this topic.
 Current recommended articles/resources:
Newspaper Raises Eyebrows With Composite Photo on Page One
Digitally altered images: famous pictures that have been manipulated
using Photoshop
North Korea not the only offender: 6 official photo fudgings
Photoshop catastrophes: 2011 The year in review
Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell
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Retouched or not: tool spots photos' too-flawless features
Great Fakes –
Famous Doctored Photographs
How Civil War Photography Changed War
Digital
Manipulation in the Fashion Industry
Altered,
and out
How we learned to love Photoshop
Point, Shoot, Retouch and
Label?
The Case of The
Inappropriate Alarm Clock
Part 1; 2
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3;
4 ;
5;
6;
7
Looking at the truth of a photo
A Move to Curb Digitally Altered Photos in
Ads
Seeing is not believing: Doctoring digital photos is easy.
Detecting it can be hard
Digital
Photo Disasters In Ads & News
Microsoft
Edits Black Man Out of Photo
Faked photos: Look, and then look again/
A Brief History of Photo Fakery
Photoshop disasters may be banned in UK
Photoshopped images: the good, the bad and the ugly
New York Times Magazine Withdraws Altered Photo Essay/
Behind The
Scenes: Digital Manipulation
Ethics in the age of digital manipulation
News Photos that took airbrushing too far
Is
Seeing Believing in an Age of Digital Photos?
No Airbrushing Is the New All Black
Photoshop
for Democracy Revisited: The Sarah Palin File
Photo
Touch-Ups the New Reality
Detecting
Digital Photo Fakery What's Real? Learning to Tell Truth From
Fiction in The Photoshop Age (PC World, Aug 2008)
Digital
Forensics: How Experts Uncover Doctored Images/
Five
Ways to Spot A Fake Photo /Photo Tampering Throughout History (Scientific American)
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