The Cardboard Cutout of War

By TPP | Published: August 29, 2008

Compare…

..and contrast:

And there’s also this:

So, which is the photoshop disaster?

The integrity of the documentary nature of the photograph is sacrosanct, isn’t it? Do we always believe what we see when it’s a map, a trainspotter, a mobile phone picture? When is a photograph a true record? Is a satellite scanning the earth at however many frames a second a true photograph? What about if the frames overlap, or are allowed to overlap?

Is the first photograph an example of an overlapped image? What are we seeing?

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