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8/12/2019 Digital Issues

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How tospot a fake

ORhow tomake one

Digital issues

in society


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make one

Whats missing?


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Whats missing?


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Which belly button is hers?


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I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation for Google Maps getting all

clone-happy in this part of Holland. It's probably just a secret alien landing site

or something.

Google maps and the stamp tool
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=52.090134,6.123794&spn=0.002136,0.004807&z=18


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Bright lights?

Or retouching?


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Migrant Mother, 1936Dorothea Lange


11/35Peppered Moth

This species had long been known to have two "varieties", one was light the otherdark. Before the 1800's many of the trees in the area had light colored trunks,either from light colored bark or from lichens. During this same time, the largerpopulation of Peppered Moths were light. There were dark moths in thepopulation, but they were a distinct minority. By the mid 1800's, the industrialrevolution was starting to impact the environment and pollution had caused adarkening of the tree trunks. It was noted that the population of dark versus lightmoths had reversed; now dark moths were the dominant color.

!dead moths were

attached to the trees

for photos!moths would not

normally land on the

trees!moths flew at night,hunted mostly by bats


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Circa 1860:

This nearly iconic portrait of U.S. President AbrahamLincoln is a composite of Lincoln's head and thebody of Southern politician, John Calhoun. Puttingthe date of this photo into context, note that the firstpermanent photographic image was created in 1826and the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company (laterto become Eastman Kodak) was created in 1884.


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1937:

In this doctored Naziphotograph, Adolf Hitler hadJoseph Goebbels [second

from right] removed from theoriginal photograph. It remainsunclear why Goebbels hadfallen out of favor with Hitler.


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1942:

In order to create a more heroicportrait of himself, Italian Fascistleader Benito Mussolini had thehorse handler removed from theoriginal photograph.


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1968:

When in the summer of 1968communist leader Fidel Castro [right]approved of the Soviet interventionin Czechoslovakia, Cuban writer andpolitical activist Carlos Franqui[middle] cut off relations with theregime and went into exile in Italy.His image was subsequentlyremoved from photographs.


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2010:

Egyptian Presiden Mubarak

edited to the front of the groupcomposed of Israeli andPalestinian leaders andPresident Obama at the WhiteHouse. The Egyptian state-rundaily Al-Ahram published thephoto, taken at the launch of the

latest Middle East peace talks but with Mubarak switched to thefront of the procession

Jack Shenker in Cairo and Haroon Siddique -

guardian.co.uk

Photograph: Alex Wong/Getty Images

Photograph: Al-Ahram
http://www.guardian.co.uk/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/02/middle-east-peace-talks-begin


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Why do hoaxes exist?Who do they serve?Why do we believe them?


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Why?

commercial: sell more with amanipulated image (news, fashion)

cultural: alter image to fit/not fit culturalnorms (belly button, skintone)

political/historical:alter visual recordtherefore historical record

scientific: hoaxes, fabricate evidence(bigfoot)


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OOPS!


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links:http://www.photoshopdisasters.com

http://blog.photoshelter.com/2008/06http://home.austin.rr.com/bedsole/personal/rantz/PepperedMyth.html

Then again, there are real threats out there!


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Using magazine images, create a hoax in your sketchbook that deals with

either commercial, cultural, political, or scientific. Consider the realism and

believability of how to select, cut, and combine the images.1


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Using scanned images or images found online create a merger or hoax that

deals with either commercial, cultural, political, or scientific issues. Consider

the realism and believability of how to select and combine the images.-consider the size of the original image (should be large enough)-remember this is more than just a juxtaposition (2 opposite images)

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Good technique, but what is it addressing?

Good technique, is it enough?


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Too random, unsure of the purpose.


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Using entirely your own digital images create a merger or hoax that deals

with either commercial, cultural, political, or scientific issues. Consider the

lighting, environment and posing of the images. Also, shoot more than you

think you need, it is digital so there is no film limit, better safe than sorry.

Josh Sommers


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Pi B t ill


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Pierre Beteille


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