Photo Doctoring


Modern technology--like digital cameras and sophisticated editing software--makes it relatively easy to alter photos. But the art of doctoring images is nothing new. On today’s show, Willis Hartshorn, director of the International Center for Photography, and Robin Kelsey, professor of art and architecture at Harvard University, look at the long history of manipulating photographs.

I remember that Stalin made use of those older techniques. (as if I remember Stalin, oh those were the days...)
- L.M. 8-23-2006 9:27 pm [add a comment]

they mentioned wpa photographers who rode around with a cow scull in their trunk that they would plop into a location shot to drive home the human desperation. that and cropping, ahh cropping.
- bill 8-23-2006 9:46 pm [add a comment]

to say nothing of the bovine desperation. Oh the bovinity!
- mark 8-24-2006 1:08 am [add a comment]

Indeed, do acknowledge the desperate bovinity. (the bovines always knew that Branding was a verb and it hurt.)
- L.M. 8-24-2006 4:20 am [add a comment]

i remember stalin

they dont make movies like that anymore. he didnt need to carry no stinkin skull around either. he would just shoot someone onsite on sight. say what you will but the man knew how to capture desperation like few others.
- dave 8-24-2006 5:27 am [add a comment]