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Vanity Fair's Photo Finagling
The Smoking Gun...Vanity Fair ^ | FEBRUARY 2

Posted on 02/25/2006 7:31:48 AM PST by george76

MIA Peter Arnett magically appears in Vietnam journo reunion pic

In its December 2005 issue, Vanity Fair magazine manipulated a photograph to make it appear that veteran journalist Peter Arnett was among a group of war correspondents gathered on a teeming Ho Chi Minh City street during a reunion of the Vietnam press corps.

In fact, according to a source familiar with the photo shoot, Arnett was not present when photographer Jonas Karlsson shot a group portrait of eight journalists last April.

Instead, the former CNN star (who covered the war for the Associated Press) was subsequently photographed solo and grafted--apparently through the magic of Photoshop--onto the group picture.

Arnett, who attended part of the Vietnam reunion, which coincided with the 30th anniversary of the war's end, is seen at the far left of the Vanity Fair photo. His space had actually been occupied during the group session by curious Vietnamese passersby.

A photo caption claims that Arnett and the other reporters were "photographed outside their old hangout the Givral Café on April 29, 2005."

Well, eight of nine ain't bad. Usually, when publications combine images into a single picture, the resulting photo is described as a composite.

The Vanity Fair byline reads, "Photograph By Jonas Karlsson."


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To: george76

Piss-poor photoshop job, if you ask me. Stevie Wonder could have done better.


21 posted on 02/25/2006 7:44:55 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Darwinism is a belief in the meaninglessness of existence - R. Kirk)
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To: george76
Wait until next month!
Vanity Fair is printing
an article on

a trip that I took
to Costa Rico. I saw
the weirdest lizards!

22 posted on 02/25/2006 7:45:53 AM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: george76

Maybe Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson aren't really married? I mean, they could've "Photoshopped" her into the pictures when HE "outed" her as a Spy/HomeMaker years ago. Hmmmm....


24 posted on 02/25/2006 7:48:49 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: george76

Unless Arnett is about 7 feet tall, they didn't even bother to scale him correctly for the photo.


25 posted on 02/25/2006 7:51:23 AM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: Richard Kimball

I'm removing #21, for the reason stated in #14.


26 posted on 02/25/2006 7:52:59 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Steamburg

Imagine how much of this went on before it could be exposed on the internet? I'd bet alot. Rathergate was just the tip of the iceberg.


27 posted on 02/25/2006 7:53:25 AM PST by kjo
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To: Richard Kimball

Uh, make that #23.


28 posted on 02/25/2006 7:53:40 AM PST by Admin Moderator
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To: Richard Kimball

I'm sure Arnett would tell you he's actually eight feet tall.


29 posted on 02/25/2006 7:54:11 AM PST by JennysCool (Islam: Scientology with Scimitars.)
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To: reagan_fanatic
Piss-poor photoshop job, if you ask me. Stevie Wonder could have done better.

Arnett's probably pretty happy with the job they did. He looks about 5" taller than he actually is.

30 posted on 02/25/2006 7:54:36 AM PST by fullchroma
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No problem. I posted it before I saw that #2 had been removed and was going to ping you, as I figured it was a copyright thing.


31 posted on 02/25/2006 7:54:39 AM PST by Richard Kimball
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To: george76; Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...
Media Shenanigans alert: A Twofer from the Liberal Bubble!

Vanity Fair (a Condé Nast publication) fakes up a photo of Peter Arnett, BUT YOU CAN'T LOOK AT THE PHOTO, BECAUSE DOING SO WOULD BE A COPYRIGHT VIOLATION*!!!

*file under Having Our Truth And Eating It, Too

32 posted on 02/25/2006 7:54:52 AM PST by an amused spectator (Bush Runner! The Donkey is after you! Bush Runner! When he catches you, you're through!)
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Uh, make that #23.

So much for your image of omnipotence... :)

33 posted on 02/25/2006 7:55:13 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: george76
Does this mean Scarlett Johansson isn't really naked on this month's fold-out cover?
34 posted on 02/25/2006 7:56:45 AM PST by FoxInSocks
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To: george76

That is indeed the one of the worst photoshopped pics. If they are going to lie, at least lie well.


35 posted on 02/25/2006 7:57:18 AM PST by SoftballMominVA
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>I'm removing #21, for the reason stated in #14
>Uh, make that #23



Hmmm . . . Been up all night
at the casino chasing
magic 21's?

36 posted on 02/25/2006 7:57:29 AM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: Steamburg

The Stone Age Press steps deeper into the swamp of histoir!

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters


37 posted on 02/25/2006 7:59:08 AM PST by bray (GW protects Americans while DinocRats protect Al Queda)
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I'm removing #21, for the reason stated in #14.
Uh, make that #23.

I'm now completely lost.

38 posted on 02/25/2006 7:59:16 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: an amused spectator

Hmmph to Conde Nast--but I note that the link to Smoking Gun works, and they have the pic. Sloppy photoshop job, seems to me. VF could surely do better than that.


39 posted on 02/25/2006 7:59:30 AM PST by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: SoftballMominVA

Remember the font of fakes, by Dan Rather ?

The DUmmies still can not get it done.


40 posted on 02/25/2006 7:59:42 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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