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Chinese Propaganda “A Second History”…

January 30, 2010

[mouse over to see the original image]
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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you change your passion for glory…

September 27, 2008

Above: Zhou Zhenglong proudly displays his photo of an endangered South China Tiger to the media. Shortly after it would be revealed as a fake.

Back in October of 2007, a farmer named Zhou Zhenglong claimed he saw and photographed something that no one had seen in 20 years – an endangered South China Tiger. Why [...]

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building renovation the Photoshop way…

August 27, 2008

Yes, the Olympic games in Beijing are over. They must be relieved to finally get their city back to normal and start to, you know, rip down their Photoshopped buildings…

Above: Photo of the fake building taken from the Epoch Times.
Beijing’s List of Fakes Keeps on ‘Building’
By Mimi Li [link to original Epoch Times article]
As if [...]

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Shopping the Olympics

August 11, 2008

Photo by Getty Images
Did you watch the opening ceremony of the Olympic games the other day? Pretty impressive fireworks display, huh? Well, those “giant footprints” were faked. (Lookout Hollywood! Beijing is kickin’ out some great CGI!) Granted, it was not done with Photoshop, but still an impressive feat to fake fireworks on “live” tv to [...]

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