Tag Archives: manipulation

19th Century Photo Collage

My wife sent me this story from the Rumpus that loosely fits with a few other posts I’ve written about photo manipulation in the 19th Century. There is a show right now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York featuring collages made by … Read More

More Manipulated Photos

I have written a little bit in the past about manipulated photos. Today, the NYTimes has a short story with some good examples here. In the slide show, slides 3 and 4 about a 1902 Ulysses S. Grant photo are particularly interesting because of the … Read More

Some history: manipulated photography

This post is related to the previous post about altering images. A few weeks ago I was at the Chrysler Museum of Art and bought the catalog for a 1994 exhibit called Pictorial Effect/Naturalistic Vision: The Photographs and Theories of Henry Peach Robinson and Peter … Read More

The truthfulness of photography

Norm Shafer, who I know as a photographer at the Virginian-Pilot (an awesome photo paper where I have freelanced occasionally) recently raised questions about my use of both advertising and editorial content on the same blog. He had thoughts which I think other people share … Read More