The document discusses the history of photo manipulation from the 1860s onward. It notes that Edward Steichen stated that no photo is truly impersonal or unmanipulated. It then asks three questions about how Photoshop is used today, the effects of manipulated images, and how they shape beliefs. Several examples are given of manipulated photos, including National Geographic adjusting pyramids and a fake 9/11 photo. Celebrities being digitally altered is also mentioned. Overall, the document covers the long history of photo manipulation and some of its modern impacts.

2. “Every photograph is a fake from
start to finish … a purely
impersonal, un-manipulated
photograph being practically
impossible.”
Edward Steichen

3. 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?

4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x03bO2b30hY

5.  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

6. http://www.fourandsix.com/photo-tampering-history/

7.  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?

8.  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,” We’ve seen thousands of pictures
 For many recipients of the email, the concerning the attack. However this
one will make you cringe. A simple
manipulated photo created very real tourist getting himself photographed
emotions to a society that was already on the top of the WTC just second
raw. before the tragedy … the camera
was found in the rubble!

9.  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.

10.  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

11. http://demo.fb.se/e/girlpower/retouch/

12.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUb5PZH
covA

13.  http://www.psdisasters.com/