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[MUSIC]. [br]The last point I'd like you to just think

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about, again something I've mentioned [br]before, is the issue of manipulation.

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every personal computer now, has some [br]elementary program built into it that

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will allow you to alter images, to one [br]degree or another.

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When you're starting to look at some of [br]them, professional products, that, that

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alteration can be very subtle and [br]sometimes almost completely

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imperceptible. [br]It wasn't so long ago that National

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Geographic required photographers to [br]guarantee they hadn't used a filter on

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their camera before accepting [br]photographs.

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Now we have a more prevalent issue about [br]the capturing of the images.

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How much they are changed for those in [br]public domain, those that are used in the

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media for the immediacy of the event [br]without thought about reportage.

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Or the legacy of those particular images [br]will have when viewed in the future by

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historians in 20 or 30 years time. [br]Most images are now captured digi,

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digitally. [br]We don't have the artifact to the same

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degree that we had with the film negative [br]and there comes a point in saying, are we

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going to be too reliant on the process of [br]transfer from the camera to the computer.

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To the published sphere, that there are [br]too many steps in which images can be

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altered or manipulated. [br]What is authentic?

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What is the image? [br]And that's something that I'd like us to

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consider by using some of the web [br]references.

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From four and six. [br]And we'll talk more about that in the

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next section. [br][BLANK_AUDIO]