com202 photo manipulation ethics
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“Every photograph is a fake from start to finish … a purely impersonal, un-manipulated photograph being practically impossible.” Edward Steichen
As you work, remember three basic essential questions.
How is Adobe Photoshop used today?
What are the effects of manipulated images?
How do these images shape beliefs about body image, the political process, and our perceptions of reality?
Photography lost its innocence many years ago.
In as early as the 1860s photographs were already being manipulated, only a few decades after the first photograph was created in 1814
http://www.fourandsix.com/photo-tampering-history/
Since the first photograph was captured, photographers have found a myriad of methods to manipulate the photographic image to relay their perception of a situation.
This widespread practice has become norm in our society, but is it ethical?
This photo allegedly captures a “tourist” posing on the observation deck of the World Trade Center only moments before the terrorist attack.
Spread like wildfire through email, the “Accidental Tourist,” as dubbed by Snopes.com, provoked “sensations of horror in those who viewed it in the days immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks,”
For many recipients of the email, the manipulated photo created very real emotions to a society that was already raw.
We’ve seen thousands of pictures concerning the attack. However this
one will make you cringe. A simple tourist getting himself photographed
on the top of the WTC just second before the tragedy … the camera
was found in the rubble!
Even the most credible media sources, including National Geographic, have been guilty of manipulating an image to a degree that the subject has been significantly altered.
By adjusting the position of the pyramids to better fit the vertical format of the magazine cover, National Geographic spurred one of the greatest debates about the issue of digital manipulation.
When Photoshop attacks! Celebs get digitally nipped and tucked Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/photoshop-attacks-celebs-digitally-nipped-tucked-gallery-1.28061#ixzz2HzziYqEx
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUb5PZHcovA
