[DukeBillie]

The Matthew Brady photo is amazingly well done considering it was before photoshop. He added both a person and a curtain.

The article shows more historical doctored photographs of Lenin, Hitler, the Beatles, Oprah Winfrey, North Korea’s Kim Jong Il, and others. My favorite is Oprah's head on Ann-Margaret's body - like anyone would believe THAT.

[cripplecreek]

[La Lydia]

The Oprah one is really a scream. Also, at the time I wondered if those Iranian missile photos hadn’t bee doctored.

[ez]

Do they have Algore with his airbrushed package?

[Carpe Cerevisi]

[Jedidah]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting. Brady was, indeed, a master of his craft, considering the technology available at the time.

[a fool in paradise]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

Well there was Vanity Fair's fake:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0202061vietnam1.html

And Time-Lies photoshopped this:

And a hired journalist/artist photographer photoshopped this:

And USA Ptooey photoshopped this:

And the LAtte Times photoshopped this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/essays/vanRiper/030409.htm

And the Daily Mirror ran a staged photo of a British soldier (NOT in Iraq) urinating on a man the press claimed was an Iraqi prisoner (he was not).

http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/editordetail.php?id=294

But let's pretend that the media doesn't play these games in the West to slur our military efforts as they engage in naked treason.

[bolobaby]

[a fool in paradise]

They also "forgot" this photo composite made with MS-Word, a scanner, and a fax machine.

[ctdonath2]

[dead]

They left out the famous skinny Katie Couric doctoring:

[a fool in paradise]

There is another Beatles image they could've used. Blame the damned Smoking Nazis stamping out all historical images of cigarettes.

(the second image is from a 1984 release)

[dead]

The following photo has been certified as undoctored by the Dan Rather Institute of Trueness:

[a fool in paradise]

Contribute your favorites they missed.

[KarlInOhio]

:p

Seriously, I remember one of Stalin with three people, then with two, then with one, and finally Stalin alone as the other three fell out of favor. Sorry, I couldn't find it in a hurry.

[ssaftler]

[Tublecane]

I find the list wildly unbalanced, and unfairly favoring the last few years. I mean, really, who cares that much about Martha Stewart?

[CharlesWayneCT]

Time is so stupid. They couldn’t realise that a photo-essay of doctored photos, would only be useful if they put the pictures side-by-side, instead of requiring a page re-load....

[uncitizen]

That was very cool, but i agree the Matthew Brady one has to be the most immpressive!

[BlueStateBlues]

This thread can become a classic if everyone keeps going. Can it be BTTT?

[razorback-bert]

ping me