Friday, October 8, 2010

Photo Tampering Before Photoshop

Photo manipulation did not start in the digital age, since the beginning of photography image makers have been compositing their shots.  This iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln's head and the Southern politician John Calhoun's body. I guess Linclon was unable to strike a noble enough pose.

7 comments:

  1. how do you know this? links.

    if it's true it's very interesting. i know a photo of queen Elizabeth has been painted over an unidentified french woman, but that's it.

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  2. I did not know that. That's pretty cool. Maybe in another post you can go in to more detail as to how they did it?

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  3. I can definitely say I learned something new today. Wow, all these years of looking at photos like this, and they have all been lies!

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  4. Thats pretty interesting info

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  5. Anonymous8/10/10 11:35

    is there some proof to this? can you post the original?

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  6. whoa i wonder how they managed to do that back then...

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