Friday, October 8, 2010

Historical Image Manipulations....




Lately I have been getting interested in the history of photographic manipulation, it seems that it has been around ever since the beginnings of photography. It really makes me question the idea of a photograph as a historical document.


In this newspaper photograph the liquor bottles were edited out of the scene of German and Russian leaders meeting at the onset of WWII. The Soviet newspaper got rid of the bottles, but the other photograph ran in its original form in a German newspaper.



I'll be posting some more images like this as I continue to find them.

16 comments:

  1. i didn't think they'd be doing that back then. a bit of subtle soviet propaganda maybe? :P

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  2. Sneaky. Perhaps the photos were taken a while apart though.

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  3. pretty dodgy lol.. even back then they had photoshop ;o.. or were atleast good editors =D

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  4. i'm guessing they used regular cut + paste tools and some white and balck inks e___e

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  5. No way!! There's Photoshop decades ago??? haha they must have painted it out then ran the modified image. Wow things we can learn. :D

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  6. i find these manipulations to be quite funny :D

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  7. Cool! History is awesome :P

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  8. Wow makes you question a lot of things

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  9. looks like great work

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  10. i dont know about this...if the picture was exactly the same fair enough...but everything seems like it was taken a moment after...perhaps after the photographer realized the bottles might look bad or something...need more

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  11. Really interesting! Thanks for posting!

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  12. that's pretty talented seeing as photoshop as we know it didn't even possibly exist

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  13. Anonymous8/10/10 19:11

    I wonder how they did it :O

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  14. the soviets were notorious for this. Especially when it came to getting rid of those who had been purged.

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  15. hm... Yeah I mean I knew it exists now in present times. Surprised that they could do it way back when.

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