Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]There's a hilarious book called something like, "The Commissar is missing", about how photographs were doctored during the Stalinist era in the Soviet Union. I say hilarious, but I guess it wasn't for the poor souls whose images disappeared from official photos. The best was illustrated on the cover. The original showed Stalin surrounded by about 5 or 6 people. Over time, the photo was reproduced in official Party literature in the USSR, but with fewer and fewer people visible as they were eliminated, one by one. Eventually, the pictured showed only Stalin, all by himself. In many cases, the alterations were works of art. Dan C. At 10:10 AM 30-08-03 -0700, Eric Welch wrote: [snip]> >It has NOTHING to do with digital. Photos were faked before digital >came along. As the wise man said ( and I've quoted enough!) "The camera >doesn't lie - photographers lie." And liars get caught. News >photographers care too much to let some hack ruin their credibility. So >when we find them, we shout loud and long. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html