Is Seeing Believing: Politics
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Arizona GOP Runs Doctored Cigarette Photo of President Obama |
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from Poynter.org (Feb 4, 2009) Recently we witnessed one of the most documented events in history with the inauguration of President Barack Obama. Frommost every angle, historic moments were captured. Documentary photography is a powerful tool — we’re talking about real events in real time.Why then, with all of the photo choices available to news organizations last week, would an image need to be manipulated? One such image, taken by McClatchy-Tribune photographer Chuck Kennedy at the foot of the inaugural podium, was altered to extend the sky in at least two U.S. publications — presumably to allow room for words to run over the photo. Those pixels were not a part of the original image. |
| TIME magazine cover: November 14, 2008 | Original FDR Photo |
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September 2008 This photo, purported to be GOP VP nominee Sarah Palin, was making its way across the WWW..But alas it too is a digital manipulation…details hereSee also:Photoshop for Democracy Revisited: The Sarah Palin File |
March 2008: This kind of thing is becoming more common: shouldn’t it be critical for people to be discriminating
and skeptical viewers and thinkers? Full story here
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Questions Raised About Darkening of Obama in Hillary Ad (March 6, 2008)
A controversial new Hillary Clinton attack ad is causing an Internet stir among critics who claim it deliberately darkens Barack Obama’s skin color.A posting on the liberal site DailyKos.com shows side-by-side screen grabs of Barack Obama taken during a debate with Clinton in Cleveland last week. The screen grab used in the Clinton ad shows a clearly darker-skinned Obama, prompting some to wonder if it was done to highlight his race. |
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January 19, 2008
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Dean Hrbacek’s flier shows his head on another’s body. The photo is presented as a true image of Dean Hrbacek, a Republican former mayor of Sugar Land, Texas. In reality, it is a computerized composite of Hrbacek’s face and someone else’s slimmer figure, in suit and tie, from neck to knee. Hrbacek, a tax lawyer and accountant, did not immediately return a call to his campaign headquarters Friday by The Associated Press. He is seeking the nomination to run against Democratic U.S. Rep. Nick Lampson. Campaign manager Scott Broschart acknowledged to The Houston Chronicle that the image is a fake. Hrbacek has been so busy that he had no time to pose for a full-length photo for the mailing, Broschart said. “He may appreciate that we took a few pounds off him,” Broschart said. “I think the voters … are more concerned with the issues as opposed to pretty photo shoots.”
YouTube video, is one of six doctored mug shots by artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese that are on display at the New York Public Library in Manhattan. Fox News. “The work described in the media has been presented out of context and is not a complete or fair representation of the entire exhibition — which showcases 23 different contemporary printmakers from around the world, featuring a range of subject matters.” |
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(AP) February 27, 2007 As President Bush smiled and waved from the stands and Mickey Mantle looked on from the dugout, Derek Jeter swung his bat. Talk about pressure. Luckily, the game never happened. It was just someone’s idea of a visual gag _ pulled off in a recent Topps baseball card through digital manipulation.
“Somewhere in between the final proofing and its printing, someone at our company _ and we won’t name names _ thought it would be funny to put in Bush and Mantle,” said Clay Luraschi, a spokesman for Topps in Tuesday’s edition of the Daily News. (link) |
Bush campaign (Oct.28, 2004) is accused of manipulating photo for use
in subsequent political campaign commercial. See original photo, followed
by altered image with indications of manipulations.
John Kerry/Jane Fonda
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1971 Photo of John Kerry Doctored See photos here NY Times Lesson Plan: |
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Photo appearing to show US presidential hopeful John Kerry sharing the stage with “Hanoi” Jane Fonda at an anti-Vietnam war rally in the early 1970s |
Anti war rally picture exposed as fake |
