Is this shopped? Truth, lies, and art before and after Photoshop
Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, reminds us that yes, we have seen quite a few ‘shops in our time. Tracing the practice through the centuries, the unprecedented collection shows that not only has manipulation been around since the beginning of the recorded image, but many of its methods and motives have remained more or less the same.
Whoa. I can’t even image doing this in the pre-Photoshop era. Amazing.