Paul writes: : My wife used to be a cheerleader for the Phoenix Giants, a college ball : team. This was in the 80's before Photoshop, but when the team poster was : printed, the girls were surprised to find their boobs all appeared to be a : little bigger. The photographer had airbrushed in a faint shadow, giving the : appearance of more cleavage. No doubt a liberty was taken but no one seemed : to mind that "the truth" was altered slightly... it's been going on forever - pixies, ghosts.. all manner of nonsense being added or taken from photos. Eugene Smith jealously guarded his negs, for as a respected PJ it would never have served his reputation to have been caught making photomontages and representing them as single images. more on image trickery over the years http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/lester/writings/faking.html I'm still giggling over the idea that *any* form of journalism (particularly the non-picture content) can be righteously defined by a media outlet as "an accurate representation of the truth" after all, 'the media" are a bunch of businesses trying to sell stuff. k
