Altering Photos in the Pre-digital age.

[ibcrewin]

Saw this on Yahoo.. really cool stuff!

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/alteri...ideshow%2Fpre-photoshop-photo-1330462026.html

 

[charjohncarter]

They did a good job on that one. I've seen some that were not so good.

 

[rbelyell]

very interesting. ancillarily, i saw a documentary interviewing ansel adams son who gave access to his dad's 'darkroom', which was larger than my home! he also showed some 'original' prints of some of adams most famous photos that were materially different, some far less dramatic, than those we have come to know. it seems PP is most certainly not a product of the digital era, and was seemingly never viewed as 'dishonest' by photography's premier practitioners; just another tool to achieve an artistic vision, and that 'vision' is not necessarily to accurately depict the seen reality.

 

[_tom]

take a look onto "photo tampering throughout history"

http://www.fourandsix.com/photo-tampering-history/

 

[mbisc]

The champion of pre-Photoshop manipulations, and other than Stalin's, Hitler's or Mao's henchmen, he's doing it for artistic reasons is Jerry Uelsmann. If you have never seen his work, see his website: http://www.uelsmann.net/

 

[gns]

It's much older than that.
Try Googleing Oscar Rejlander, Hippolyte Bayard, or combination printing.

Gary

 

[rbelyell]

take a look onto "photo tampering throughout history"

http://www.fourandsix.com/photo-tampering-history/

tom that is an awesome site. as an eternal skeptic, it did not appear there was any independent varification of the claims...did i miss something (i'm hoping i did!).
tony

 

[FrozenInTime]

The Commissar vanishes :

http://www.amazon.com/Commissar-Vanishes-Falsification-Photographs-Stalins/dp/0805052941