Showing posts with label retouching photographs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label retouching photographs. Show all posts

Thursday, March 11, 2010

Watch the birdie.

Dartmouth professor Hany Farid explores the history of retouching photographs, even providing some 19th-century examples. (This one, not part of Farid's discussion, features a unique visitor to the Yalta Conference of 1945).

About the photo: General Francis P. Blair, who shows up in a Matthew Brady photograph for which he actually was not present. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.