A brief history of Photo Fakery

Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:54 am » by **Frutty**

The game is played once and again and again, before you or I were born, however people keep buying and buying ....

Old debates about the authenticity of the war photographer Robert Capa’s iconic photo — commonly known as "Falling Soldier" — have been re-ignited by research that challenges the location of the image.

In a preview of celebrity magazine cover techniques, a popular image of Abraham Lincoln is actually his head grafted to the more majestic body of John Calhoun, a senator and vice president.

This composite image of Ulysses S. Grant is a pre-Photoshop splicing job with three sources, shown on the next slide. It was made in 1902.

The Grant image is constructed from pieces of photos. From left: His head came from this pose in front of a tent. The background is an encampment at Fisher's Hill, Va. (The composite falsely claims the general is in City Point, Va.) The horse and body actually belong to Maj. Gen. Alexander McDowell McCoo

Stalin was known for erasing images of his enemies, such as this commissar.

To Be Continued

Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:59 am » by **Frutty**

Benito Mussolini looked more heroic after the horse handler in the original photograph (at right) was erased.

China's Central Committee at the 1976 funeral of Chairman Mao. Missing are the Gang of Four, who were arrested soon after this photo was taken and erased, leaving gaps in the lineup.

Mao (at right in photos) had Po Ku removed from the original photograph after he fell out of favor.

Perhaps the most famous image of World War II, Joe Rosenthal's shot of Marines on Iwo Jima, was dogged by accusations of being staged.

Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:04 am » by **Frutty**

John Paul Filo's original photo of the Kent State shooting, left, and the retouched version from Life magazine, which removed the post above the kneeling woman.

A freelance photographer for the Reuters news agency doctored this Aug. 5, 2006, photograph of smoke rising from burning buildings after an Israeli airstrike on the suburbs of Beirut. The manipulated image, at left, has more smoke added.

At left, a handout image released by the Iranian newspaper Jam-e-Jam’s online edition on July 10, 2008, showing three missiles rising into the air while a fourth remains in the launcher on the ground during a test-firing in an undisclosed location in the Iranian desert. Right, the same image as released by the news Web site and public relations arm of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Sepah News, on July 9, 2008. This image was digitally altered to replace the grounded missile and launcher with a fourth successfully launched missile rising into the air and a smoke cloud on the ground.

Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:12 am » by **E6722maj**

good stuff :cheers:

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Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:20 am » by **Frutty**

e6722maj wrote:good stuff

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Thanks pal.

Photo on the left is from the book Carrying The Fire by Astronaut Michael Collins. It shows Collins in a no-gravity test inside an airplane. On The right he was allegedly snapped in a Gemini 10 space walk in 1966. They are the same photo !

Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:27 am » by **Frutty**

It is believed that this doctored photograph contributed to Senator Millard Tydings’ electoral defeat in 1950. The photo of Tydings (right) conversing with Earl Browder (left), a leader of the American Communist party, was meant to suggest that Tydings had communist sympathies.

Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:34 am » by **Frutty**

In this doctored photograph from 1937, Adolf Hitler had Joseph Goebbels (second from the right) removed from the original photograph. It remains unclear why exactly Goebbels fell out of favor with Hitler.

Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:39 am » by **Frutty**

In this doctored photo of Queen Elizabeth and Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in Banff, Alberta in 1939, King George VI was removed from the original photograph. This photo was used on an election poster for the Prime Minister. It is hypothesized that the Prime Minister had the photo altered because a photo of just him and the Queen painted him in a more powerful light.

Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:44 am » by **Frutty**

The cover of a 1989 TV Guide edition displayed this picture of daytime talk-show host Oprah Winfrey. This picture was created by splicing the head of Winfrey onto the body of actress Ann-Margret, taken from a 1979 publicity shot. The composite was created without permission of Winfrey or Ann-Margret, and was detected by Ann-Margret’s fashion designer, who recognized the dress.

Wed Sep 28, 2011 3:48 am » by **Frutty**

In this 1982 National Geographic magazine cover story on Egypt by Gorden Gahen, the Great Pyramid of Giza was digitally moved to fit the magazine’s vertical format. Tom Kennedy, who became the director of photography at National Geographic after the cover was manipulated, stated that “We no longer use that technology to manipulate elements in a photo simply to achieve a more compelling graphic effect. We regarded that afterwards as a mistake, and we wouldn’t repeat that mistake today”.

They continue doing it today, without much criticism -- Comment by Frutty :alien51: