‘Faking It’: Old-School Photo Trickery at the Met
A new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art highlights a long history of faked and manipulated images.
A new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art highlights a long history of faked and manipulated images.
The authenticity of government-released photographs from North Korea has been questioned for years but not until this week, during the funeral of Kim Jong Il, was the issue as widely discussed and analyzed.
Photographic images can be altered and manipulated in various ways to change their meaning. David Levi Strauss traces the motivation and art of the altered image through history.