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

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

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

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

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

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alteration can be very subtle and 
sometimes almost completely

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imperceptible. 
It wasn't so long ago that National

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

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their camera before accepting 
photographs.

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

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

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media for the immediacy of the event 
without thought about reportage.

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

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

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digitally. 
We don't have the artifact to the same

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

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

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

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altered or manipulated. 
What is authentic?

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

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consider by using some of the web 
references.

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

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next section. 
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