Friday, July 29, 2011

Photo Tampering Throughout History

Think that we are the only ones using the sophisticated tools in order to tamper with photographs. You better think again since this craft in fact stretches back in earlier days of photography. Web site FourAndSix offers an whole section focused on photo tampering all through history. Surprisingly, a few of our most iconic photos from the 1800s are in fact composites.
Browse the gallery listed below for some samples and jump to the site FourAndSix for a many more.

General Ulysses S. Grant while in front of his soldiers at City Point, Virginia while in the Civil War, however is in fact a composite of three different photos.


Adolf Hitler had Joseph Goebbels taken off an original photo.


This pretty much iconic portrait of U. S. President Abraham Lincoln is really a composite of Lincoln’s face along with the politician John Calhoun’s body.


In order to make a much more heroic portrait of himself, Benito Mussolini had the horse handler taken off the main photo.


In this photo a commissar has been taken off an original photo after falling out of favor with Stalin.

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