Re-imaging History. A Gallery of famous doctored photos

[Ian David]

By Randy Dotinga

A picture is worth a thousand words, and Photoshop and similar tools have made it easier than ever to make those words fib. But while computers enable easier and better photo manipulation, it is hardly a new phenomenon. Here is a sampling of some of the more famous altered photographs from the last century.

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Propagandists in the Soviet Union famously deleted politicians from photographs when they fell out of favor. In these photos, Vladimir Lenin celebrates the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution in Red Square. But in the second one, his comrade Leon Trotsky is suddenly persona non grata. Source: "The Commissar Vanishes," newseum.org


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For decades after the Kent State shootings in 1970, several magazines unknowingly ran a sloppily manipulated version of the famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by John Filo. See if you can figure out what's missing from the manipulated photo compared to the original. Sources: http://journalism_jobs.tripod.com/a.filo.html




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[dicknbush]

1. THe Fence post that is above or appears to be above the Girl on bended knee

I think that's it. But I don't get why is just for photo composition?

[fla nocount]

6. The individual to the far right of the of the photo is now identifiably

a commie-hippie type. I bet the shirt tail sticking out is of that fruit-bat paisley design and that his greasy mop of hair smells like patchouli

[mtnHov]

2. nobody wants a pole sticking out of their head

[Hosnon]

3. What's the significance of removing the post? It looks like she has a

post through the head in the original but that's about it...

???

[Mist]

4. I would say, just makes for better composition. nt

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

5. Was the fence between the students and the guardsmen?

Remove the fence from the photo, and it looks like they might have fired in self-defense...

That's the only :tinfoilhat: explanation I can think of.

[Bunny]

7. Did they erase a pool of blood from the murdered student?

[fishnfla]

8. There are three dudes taken out of the first set

lotta persona non grata