Posted on 10/15/2009 9:18:50 AM PDT by DukeBillie
Civil War Generals, c. 1865 Generally regarded as the world's first commercially successful photojournalist, Matthew Brady was also one of the medium's most accomplished manipulators. In this group portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman and his top officers, he added one figure. For the record, the men are, standing, from left: Oliver Otis Howard, William Babcock Hazen, Jefferson Columbus Davis and Joseph Anthony Mower; seated, from left: John Alexander Logan, Sherman, Henry Warner Slocum and Francis P. Blair.
The Original Image: Brady added Blair at the far right. One of Sherman's corps commanders in the critical final offensive in Georgia, Blair led the XVII Corps, which protected the rear of Sherman's army during the Atlanta campaign. Like the other men in the photo, he played an important role in the March to the Sea, helping deliver one of the final blows to the Confederate cause.
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I like the magnet. It’s a nice touch.
The trick is sticking with GREAT doctored photos - fakes which impacted society to a non-trivial degree.
#6 caused a brief stir in international news, depicting a captured US soldier until someone pointed out the photo was of a toy.
#9 provided circumstantial evidence that something is wrong with the Obama’s eligibility for President (why post a lame fake as proof of eligibility when the real thing would resolve the issue in minutes for a few dollars?).
#10 ended Dan Rather’s long career as top news spokesman.
#11 was the first great “photoshop job”. Obvious fake/funny, but showed how a very convincing fake could be made in minutes.
#28 was allegedly found in the 9/11 WTC rubble and was a sentimental news hit - until proven a fake.
#30 became one of the great modern Internet fads.
Others above are notable for being outrageous for gall to fake & publish so publicly, but did not have quite the resounding cultural impact.
That wins my vote hands down. That has always made me LOL.
Roland D-80 LOL
LOL!
#11 may or may not be a photoshop composite but the original concept of that was cranked out in the 1980s (that may be a revisit of it, I don’t know).
Be sure to print & post a copy on a wall on November 24th.
ROFL!
It’s amazing. :)
You're welcome
One of the best threads ever with the missile doctoring.
They also had to color-correct her legs!
Consider, for example, the famous “photograph” of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby playing rock music together in a Dallas basement. Such fake photographs have a long history; Stalin’s photo retouchers, for example, spent considerable time airbrushing Trotsky out of the historical record. But the transformation of the original Bob Jackson photo of Ruby shooting Oswald into “In-A-Gadda-Da-Oswald” did not require a skilled craftsman. George Mahlberg created it with Photoshop in forty minutes and it quickly spread across the World Wide Web, popping up in multiple contexts that erase the credit of the “original” counterfeiter. [reference]
I'm surprised nobody's posted this one yet:
Any links/references to the alleged ‘80s version?
 Tickling Che A nice way to show respect for the dead |
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