Is Seeing Believing?

Images from War

 



This undated photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Lt. Gen. ...



November 14 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94F1CIG0&show_article=1
 
The Associated Press on Friday suspended the use of photos provided by the Defense Department after the Army distributed a digitally altered photo of the U.S. military's first female four-star general.

The image of Army Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody is the second Army-provided photo the AP has eliminated from its service in the last two months.

The AP said that adjusting photos and other imagery, even for aesthetic reasons, damages the credibility of the information distributed by the military to news organizations and the public.

In the original photo, the general appears to be sitting at a desk with a credenza and bookshelf behind her. Three stars on her uniform identify her as a lieutenant general, her rank before Friday's promotion.

The altered photo, distributed by the Army and run on the AP's photo wire Thursday, shows Dunwoody in fatigues in front of an American flag. Her rank, affixed to the front of a soldier's tunic, is not visible.

 


 

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Aug.6, 2006  Reuters on Sunday withdrew a photo of smoke rising from burning buildings after an Israeli air strike on
the suburbs of Beirut on August 5, 2006 after evidence emerged that it had been manipulated to show more smoke.
The manipulated image is shown on the left. The unaltered image, shown on the right, has since run. Reuters has
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A Picture is no longer worth a thousand words; 
Which photo is the real thing? 
No one knows for sure in the age of Photoshop. (from salon.com)

 

The Dixie Chicks take a publicity shot for their upcoming Middle East tour. Thanks to the Insiders for providing this picture.


 


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Parody of "Star Wars" movie poster; from Mad magazine

Students should be encouraged to explain how this parody resembles a real

  


From website about Civil war era photographer Alexander Gardner:
It should also be added, however, that amongst the genuine pictures of the war 
there appear to be a few which are contrived, further proof that whilst the camera 
cannot lie, the person behind it can! For example, when Gardner arrived at the decisive 
scene of the war at Gettysburg two days after it had been fought, he set about 
photographing "Home of a rebel sharpshooter." However, before taking the picture 
he had dragged the body of a Confederate some thirty metres to where he lies in the picture, 
turning the head towards the camera.
Source: http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/history/gardner.htm


Sharpshooter's Den Photo		 NEW: visual literacy lesson plan incorporating this Civil War photograph

The Case of the Moved Body? Does the Camera Ever Lie? Civil War   
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/cwpcam/cwcam3.html

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