Is Seeing Believing? Background articles-
(arranged alphabetically)
Altered
Imagery (US Department of Defense)
Altered
Images (Spain bombing photos altered in some European papers)
Analyzing
Media- Photo Essays (McDougal - Littell)
At MIT, They Can put Words in Our Mouths
(Boston Globe)
Beware
False Reality
The Camera Never Lies, But The Software Can (NYT)
Culture
of manipulation
Digital detectives discern Photoshop fakery
(CSM)
Digital Fakery (Ottawa Citizen)
Digital Image Manipulation: A Compelling Means to Engage Students in
Discussion of Point of View and Perspective
Digital
Manipulation In The News
Ethics In The Age of Digital Photography
http://www.nppa.org/services/bizpract/eadp/eadp.html
Fake Or Foto Web site
Faking Images in Photojournalism
http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/lester/writings/geo.html
Faking It (Newsday) http://www.dancingicon.com/PDF/fakingit.pdf
Lying
With Pixels (Technology Review, July/Aug. 2000)
The
Manipulation of Truth in Art & Journalism
Manipulating
Photographs: Can You Trust Photographs? Lesson Plan
Mining: For Image or Truth?
http://www.kqed.org/ednet/lessons/plans/mining.pdf (Adobe Acrobat
document)
The Murky Road
of Digital Retouching (Jean Kilbourne)
Newseum Exhibit OnLine The Commissar Vanishes
www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/propaganda.htm
Perfect Touch Ups- (3/27/03)
Who said the camera never lies?
Magazines now have the power to make stars look flawless or ridiculous.
Photo Fakery: How
to Spot Fake Photographs (National Geographic Society)
Photographic
images should not be relied upon, but even falsified photographs
can be illuminating for students of history
Photography in the Age of Falsification
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/98may/photo.htm
A Photojournalistic Confession (8/03)
Photoshopping Reality:
Journalistic Ethics in an Age of Virtual Truth
(12/06)
Powerful
news photographs - the kind that trigger deep emotions -
often help decide the course of history (12/03)
A QUESTION OF TRUTH: Photojournalism
And Visual Ethics (08/06)
Remodeling for Perfection (4/03)
Seeing is no longer believing (2/05)
Shuttle Columbia, Explosion Photos
An accompanying email claims these photos were taken by an Israeli
intelligence satellite.
Read why/how
they're faked.
Teachable Moment: Photographic Truth In The Digital Era
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/class/teamed3/photographic_truth.html
US
News and World Report Special Double Issue July 9-16, 2001
pg 47, Now You See Him, Now You Don’t
What's
Wrong With This Picture? (CJR)
When Seeing Isn't
Believing: Digital manipulation is becoming widespread. Is anyone nervous?
When The Camera Lies (Sept. 2006)
When Your Eyes Tell You Lies (Insight Magazine Oct. 2000)
http://www.insightmag.com/news/2000/10/16/Nation/Media.When.Your.Eyes.Tell.You.Lies-213320.shtml