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To: nmh
The title is "The Post American World" and...this photo is suspect as a photoshop job.

The angle of sun is from top left to lower right. The open pages of the book are not cast in the shadow of Obama's body as it would seem they should be. They are brightly lit. His body would cast a shadow on the book held on that side of his body.

Also, it appears that the fingers on the book are casting a shadow in the opposite direction from the direction of the sun. I laid a copy of the cover over the cover shown in the photo to see if a graphic element of the cover could appear as a shadow. There are some dark images but not that would seem to match.

The cover of the book in the photo with Obama appears to be placed larger on the book than any sample of the book's cover I can find on the net (perhaps to make it easier to read the title or just a sloppy photoshop work). In fact, the word "American" in the title is actually cut off at the spine binding in the photo with Obama.

If I felt like taking the time, I could drop any book cover over the one shown. It is a pretty easy photoshop job to do.

18 posted on 04/12/2010 10:50:01 AM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: gunsequalfreedom

FWIW, here is Snopes’ take:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/postamerican.asp


21 posted on 04/12/2010 10:54:20 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: gunsequalfreedom

The photo was published 21 May of 2008 by the NY Times. It resides on their website to this day: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/05/21/books/obama-reads-533.jpg


22 posted on 04/12/2010 10:55:47 AM PDT by X180A
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To: gunsequalfreedom
According to Snopes, the photo is real. I could point out why I disagree with your analysis of the photo, but if Snopes is correct it's moot.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/postamerican.asp

23 posted on 04/12/2010 11:00:06 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: gunsequalfreedom

>>>The title is “The Post American World” and...this photo is suspect as a photoshop job.<<<

So I downloaded the photo and looked at it using my version of Photoshop CS4.

I also saw the cut-off title of the book. That’s suspect to me.

What’s also suspect is that the original picture shows a mass of pixelation when I blow it up to 1200 percent, but the inset picture at the same resolution shows the letters clearly.

As an old photojournalist myself, your comments about shadows and so forth also make sense.

I’m with you, then, in the “suspicious” category.


27 posted on 04/12/2010 11:27:32 AM PDT by redpoll
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