Week 1.5 Manipulation

From the description of Week 1 of The Camera Never Lies:
Learning Outcomes (Week 1)
On completing this week of work, you should be able to:
1. Understand the broad objectives of the course, and its structure;
2. Begin thinking about your own reactions to images in a modern and historical context; and
3. Consider more critically the images you see in the modern media.

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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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