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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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