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

The Ethics of Digital Photo Manipulation    
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/digitalphotoethics/

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 

If Looks Could Kill, Digital Manipulation of Fashion Models

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

Were the Moon Landings Faked?

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