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Photograph manipulation
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Photograph manipulation or photograph alteration is the modification of an otherwise genuine photograph. Some photograph manipulations are considered to be skillful artwork, while others are considere
Australian photographer Frank Hurley formed this composite photograph from three negatives of World War I in Belgium, arguing to his superiors that wa
Australian photographer Frank Hurley formed this composite photograph from three negatives of World War I in Belgium, arguing to his superiors that war was conducted on such a vast scale that it was impossible to capture its essence in a single negative.
Early retouching tools: gouache paint, kneaded erasers, charcoal sticks, and an airbrush (giving rise to the phrase "airbrushed from history")
Early retouching tools: gouache paint, kneaded erasers, charcoal sticks, and an airbrush (giving rise to the phrase "airbrushed from history")
Abraham Lincoln's head superimposed on a print of John C. Calhoun was not discovered for almost a century, when photojournalist Stefan Lorant noticed
Abraham Lincoln's head superimposed on a print of John C. Calhoun was not discovered for almost a century, when photojournalist Stefan Lorant noticed Lincoln's mole was on the wrong side of his face.
General Grant at City Point is a composite of three different photographs.
General Grant at City Point is a composite of three different photographs.
Nikolai Yezhov
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Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, also spelt Ezhov, was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the NKVD from 1936 to 1938, at the height of the Great Purge. Yezhov organized mass
Photograph manipulation
…out of a photograph showing Trotsky in attendance. In a well-known case of damnatio memoriae ("condemnation of memory") image manipulation, NKVD leader Nikolai Yezhov, after his execution in 1940, was removed from an official press photo where he was pictured with Stalin; historians subsequently nicknaming him the…
Yezhov in 1938
Yezhov in 1938
The Gulag newspaper, Perekovka ("Reforging"), front page announcing the replacement of Genrikh Yagoda by Nikolai Yezhov
The Gulag newspaper, Perekovka ("Reforging"), front page announcing the replacement of Genrikh Yagoda by Nikolai Yezhov
Yezhov's wife Yevgenia with their adopted daughter Natalia
Yezhov's wife Yevgenia with their adopted daughter Natalia