Elizabeth Losh and Virtualpolitik (the brand, the blog, and the book)
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Another case of a government getting involved.
and a recent example of its editorializing function
Beyond Tips and Shortcuts
A long history of altered photographs
Tampered Photos Throughout History
More Historical Context: Two Trends (Tactical Media vs. Strategic Communications)
| Weimar Revolutionary Photomontage | Stalinist Propaganda |
John Heartfield at the Getty |
The Commissar Vanishes |
How does this relate to Benjamin's "Mechanical Reproduction"?
"Photography as a Weapon" by documentary filmmaker Erroll Morris (Like "Art as a Weapon" by Friedrich Wolf)
Reading: "Photography in the Age of Falsification"
Academia Drawing Attention to the Issue
William Mitchell, "How to Do Things with Pictures"
The Research of UCI's Own Elizabeth Loftus
"Is Seeing Believing?" Course Materials
SIGGRAPH panel on Ethics in image manipulation
Hany Farid and Nova episode on Digital Forensics
Political Uses of Photoshop for Strategic Communications
Deception here in Orange County politics
(and more trouble with campaign materials in New York, New Jersey, and New Orleans)
Even an ad for the President is altered
An Iraqi celebration of the toppling of the Hussein regime is altered on the Evening Standard
BAGNewsNotes on "General Touch Up"
Altered images from Lebanon war and photographer's firing
The Iranian missile case (and explanation)
"Putin Opponents Vanish from TV" and Chinese Olympics are altered
"I Was There, Just Ask Photoshop" (vernacular practices with family photos)
Activist Uses of Photoshop for Tactical Media
"The Photoshopping of the President"
No longer in office but still being Photoshopped
When it Backfires: Blogging and Photoshop ("Burqagate" from the Clinton luncheon and the Lieberman blackface case) - darkblack's Flickr page
The Context of Scholarship
The talk that the Photoshop chapter
Dialogue with the book Tactical Media
Gray Areas: What if It Looks Convincing?
"Fauxtography and Governor Sarah Palin"
Two Time Magazine Covers: O.J. Simpson vs. Reagan's Tear
Which cover makes the editorializing function of Photoshop clear?
Critical Studies of Photoshop's Aesthetics
Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media
Vision no longer opposed to touch (175)
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) "emulated familiar physical interfaces -- a file cabinet, a desk, a trash can, a control panel." (213)
Check out this idea for representing Photoshop
Back to Attention to the Interface
Dove Evolution (parodies and more here, here, here, here, here, here, and here . . . and this goes on and on to Photoshop transformations of elderly ladies and women in mugshots)
Political Artistic Critique
Ken Gonzales-Day and his erased lynching series
