Photo Manipulation

People have been manipulating photos for a very long time, it was even happening in the 1860s. Manipulating photos can have quite serious consequences. It can completely change the meaning of any image. It doesnt matter whether you cut the picture in half or replace someones head, it can seriously change the way in which we look at pictures. For example in the 1930 photograph of Stalin, he has had his commissar removed from his photo after falling out with him.



The point to this is that anyone can manipulate a photo to completely change its meaning and context. By croping the image you could remove the vitally important object within the decisive moment, which would change the context and the perspective. And after replacing faces you can completely change who the image is about and who it is portraying.

Where the picture is shown can also change the meaning to the photo. It all depends on the contrasts of its surroundings and what pictures it are next to, they could have a picture of all loads of generals doing their duty and then they could put the photo of the general from thailand executing a prisoner without trial, and depending of the pictures shown around it, it could be shown as good. This is called juxtaposition.