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Political Shops

Shopping Silvio (again)…

February 8, 2010

Oh Italy, how I love your Photoshopping ways! I have written about Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, before and now we have been graced with this gem…

[Please - I beg of you - click to enlarge this image. It is sooo worth it!]
You really need to view the enlarged image to see the Shops in [...]

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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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FBI creates a TLS!

January 22, 2010

Left: Osama Bin Laden in 1998 (AP Photo); Middle: the FBI’s “digitally-altered” age progressed photo of OBL which was achieved using “cutting-edge” technology; Right: the campaign photo for the leader of Spain’s United Left coalition, Gaspar Llamazares
I tweeted about this news story on Mashable a couple of days ago. I was so happy someone finally [...]

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A Brief History of Photo Fakery…

August 24, 2009

The New York Times “Week in Review” magazine ran a slide show yesterday titled A Brief History of Photo Fakery. They put up quite a selection of fake imagery – both historic and current – some of which have been previously featured on this blog and some that have not. (Such as the above image [...]

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Need supporters for your political rally? Shop them!

June 17, 2009

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Above: Shopped image of a pro Ahmadinejad rally which was printed in Iranian newspaper Kayhan (which – shocker – is controlled by the Iranian government). [source]
Just under a year ago Iran made the news with their cloned rockets, and now they are making news again with their cloned Ahmadinejad supporters (above). [Note [...]

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