Stuck with inconveniently located Egyptian pyramids, National Geographic squeezed two together so they’d fit onto the magazine’s vertical cover in 1982.
Source: Hany Farid, Dartmouth University
Double Vision in Iraq
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In 2003, the Los Angeles Times fired photographer Brian Walski after editors at the Hartford (Conn.) Courant noticed that some people appeared twice in one of his photos from Iraq. Walski had combined elements of two photographs into one, apparently in order to provide more drama. The manipulated photo blends the left side of one photo and the right side of the other. Note the man in white kneeling at the far left of the manipulated photo. Part of his body appears again directly to the right of the soldier’s legs.
Source: Sree.net
Smoke and Mirrors
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In 2006, bloggers uncovered manipulation in a Reuters photo of a bombed-out Lebanese cityscape. Photographer Adnan Hajj, later fired by the news service, copied elements of billowing smoke into another area of the photo. Notice how patterns of smoke in the manipulated photo are repeated.
The resulting scandal gave ammunition to critics who claim the media’s Mideast coverage is biased.
Source: PDNonline.com
Invisible Man
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Propagandists in the Soviet Union famously deleted politicians from photographs when they fell out of favor. In these photos, Vladimir Lenin celebrates the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution in Red Square. But in the second one, his comrade Leon Trotsky is suddenly persona non grata.
Source: “The Commissar Vanishes,” newseum.org
Water Way to Go
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The Soviet Union’s busy airbrushing department strikes again in these photos, in which a commissar of water transport disappears but Joseph Stalin remains. The commissar had been shot to death.
Source: “The Commissar Vanishes,” newseum.org
Smudged Away
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For decades after the Kent State shootings in 1970, several magazines unknowingly ran a sloppily manipulated version of the famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by John Filo. See if you can figure out what’s missing from the manipulated photo compared to the original.
Sources: http://journalism_jobs.tripod.com/a.filo.html
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