Actually, Photoshop - the app - didn't exist back then, but concern about deceptively edited photos feels like a very modern anxiety, yet a century ago similar worries were being litigated.
Portrait photography gave rise to an industry of photo retouching - analog “beauty filters” - to flatter subjects in a way portrait painters once did. This trend led to questions about technology distorting our perceptions of beauty, reality, and truth.
An 1897 issue of the New-York Tribune would declare the assumption “Photographs Do Not Lie” an “exploded notion,” saying that “…at the present time photographs may be and are made to lie with great frequency and facility.”
Other commercial applications of photo retouching emerged. In 1911, tourists visiting Washington DC could acquire fake photographs of themselves posing with then-President of the United States William Taft. This troubled government officials. Upon discovering the practice in 1911, a US attorney ordered it stopped. On July 29, 1912, the bill was introduced to the Senate “to prohibit the making, showing, or distributing of fraudulent photographs.”
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How can they sell these for under $ 500.00 bucks?
HP 15.6" FHD Laptop Computer for student, home and business
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1) it's a piece of shit; 2) YOU are the product, the computer is just the way they collect the data. Linux is free and runs on any old system, usually faster and better than MS11. Two exceptions: tax software, and CADCAM. Get Linux Mint and give Bill the middle digit.
ReplyDeleteAnd now, we have to question if any photo we see is real
ReplyDeleteSame applies to video! Or do you not think that "Law Enforcement" has access to computers which can handle such thing?
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