From the category archives:

Before There Was Photoshop

Topps – retouching America’s pastimes…

March 6, 2010

Above: The ultimate photobomb – 2007 Topps card featuring Derek Jeter with Mickey Mantle in the dugout and George Bush waving from the stands. Topps spokesman Clay Luraschi told the AP: “We saw it in the final proof and we could have axed it, but we decided to let it run, we wanted to print [...]

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Spy magazine – covering the covers

March 3, 2010

Above: Two of Spy magazine’s infamous “spoof” covers – Hillary Clinton as a dominatrix (from 1993) and George Bush Sr. with “cutout hair” (from 1989).
Spy magazine was a publication known for the manipulated images which often graced the covers, and the satirical wit which always occupied the inside pages. Spy ran monthly from October 1986 [...]

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Chinese Propaganda “A Second History”…

January 30, 2010

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In this well-known doctored photograph (taken circa 1936), Mao Tse-tung (right) had Po Ku (far left in the mouse over image) removed.
I tweeted A couple weeks back about artist and photographer Zhang Dali’s installation called “A Second History” which shows doctored archival photographs published in China during the Mao [...]

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This is how your grandparents were Photoshopped…

January 27, 2010

Yesterday I got all old lady cranky pants on you about how the way things used to be. Well, today I continue with the fist shaking and yelling at you to get off my lawn…
I wrote a post a couple months back for those of you who are looking for guides on how to use [...]

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Ya know, back in my day…

January 26, 2010

Kids these days! With their fancy new fan-dangled Photoshop skills! Them mouse clickin’ whippersnappers! Don’t they know that when I was a kid I had to use a DARKROOM and I had to DRAW ON PHOTOS to make ‘em look good? Of course, this was all after I had to walk to the darkroom uphill [...]

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