Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>A great topic, Adam - >First, the image manipulation question: > >Image manipulation has always been possible - the Russians were masters at >it - piss off Stalin and you disappear from the photo and from history. And >Russians aside, remember all the conspiracy theories about the photo of Lee >Harvey Oswald holding his rifle, with people claiming that the shadow was >wrong, and that the image had been manipulated? >Obviously, today's technology - Photoshop - makes the manipulation of images >much easier, and much harder to detect. Which means that we can't trust >photos to "tell the truth," as we once did. But then Susan Sontag would >argue that photos have never "told the truth." >[snip] In addition to Sontag on this one, let's not forget Benjamin's forward looking essay "On the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." Seminal stuff for Photographers and Photoshoppers alike. Guy - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html