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> Forging photos before Photoshop was the work of nation states That might be a bit of an overstatement. There were plenty of non-nation states doing image man
by diggan 2y ago
> Forging photos before Photoshop was the work of nation states
That might be a bit of an overstatement. There were plenty of non-nation states doing image manipulation before digital image manipulation. Double exposure, piecing together negatives and retouching for example was done early in photography's history.
Just one example from ~1850:
> Henry Peach Robinson [...] was an English pictorialist photographer best known for his pioneering combination printing - joining multiple negatives or prints to form a single image;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Peach_Robinson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Peach_Robinson
- paradox460 2y agoIndeed. At summer camp at age 8, I brushed my face into a photograph of the Grand canyon, by making a mask with an air brush and double exposing it into the photo paper sitting in emulsion.