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The last point I'd like you to just think
about, again something I've mentioned
before, is the issue of manipulation.
every personal computer now, has some
elementary program built into it that
will allow you to alter images, to one
degree or another.
When you're starting to look at some of
them, professional products, that, that
alteration can be very subtle and
sometimes almost completely
imperceptible.
It wasn't so long ago that National
Geographic required photographers to
guarantee they hadn't used a filter on
their camera before accepting
photographs.
Now we have a more prevalent issue about
the capturing of the images.
How much they are changed for those in
public domain, those that are used in the
media for the immediacy of the event
without thought about reportage.
Or the legacy of those particular images
will have when viewed in the future by
historians in 20 or 30 years time.
Most images are now captured digi,
digitally.
We don't have the artifact to the same
degree that we had with the film negative
and there comes a point in saying, are we
going to be too reliant on the process of
transfer from the camera to the computer.
To the published sphere, that there are
too many steps in which images can be
altered or manipulated.
What is authentic?
What is the image?
And that's something that I'd like us to
consider by using some of the web
references.
From four and six.
And we'll talk more about that in the
next section.
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