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Photos as faked reality

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Posted by Lon Sharp on October 25, 2009 at 11:15 PM
http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/the-case-of-the-inappropriate-alarm-clock-part-1/

This is an interesting read, and shows the issue became national news in the 1930's, long before photoshop!
Posted by Rosemarie Arbur on October 26, 2009 at 4:56 AM
Something I saw and heard on The Chris Matthews Show brings up this analog: which is more deceiving, moving a dead cow's skull ten feet or having your book ghost-written?
Posted by Ed Cordes on October 26, 2009 at 8:20 PM
The discussion will always continue. It is important to point out, as this article does, that it is not PhotoShop that created the discussion, but the process of photography itself. Now, why is it OK for painters to depict "reality" anyway they want and photographers are held to a higher standard?