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Story by AFP, in today’s headlines:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061015/ts_alt_afp/afplifestyleussociety_061015170214

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Digitally altered image using Photoshop

I worked on this with Rosie Daniel. We found common ground on our love for Jon Stewart and a hatred for Ann Coulter.

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1. Baby Hitler
The picture on the left was widely printed in newspapers throughout the 1930s. It was represented as being a snapshot of Adolf Hitler as a baby. Sometime in 1937 Mrs. Harriet Downs, of Westport, Conn., noticed the image in a magazine and recognized it as an altered baby photo of her own son, John May Warren. The original, unretouched picture is shown on the right.

2. Prince William Gone Wild
By UK based artist Alison Jackson. Per her artist statement, “My work is about simulation. Creating a clone of a copy of the ‘real’ on paper. It is not a fake, it takes a place of the ‘real’ for a moment whilst looking at the image. As Baudrillard puts it, simulation is different from feigning. Feigning is pretending, such as, feigning illness or pretending to be ill. The subject is not ill, just seeming to be, but ‘simulation threatens the difference between ‘true’ and ‘false’, between ‘real’ and ‘imaginary’. Since the simulator produces ‘true’ symptoms, is he ill or not. He cannot be treated objectively either as ill or not ill. ”

3. Photojournalism Fakery
This digital composite of Sen. John Kerry and Jane Fonda sharing a stage at an antiwar rally emerged during the 2004 presidential primaries while Kerry campaigned for the Democratic nomination. The picture of Kerry was captured by photographer Ken Light as Kerry was preparing to give a speech at the Register for Peace Rally held in Mineola, N.Y., in June 1971. The picture of Jane Fonda was captured by Owen Franken as Fonda spoke at a political rally in Miami Beach, Fla., in August 1972.