Forrest Gump: Life is Like a Box of Chocolates that You Can Digitally Enhance and Get Rid of all Those Flavors That Are Unpopular

Learning Goal:
To appreciate that the Classical Hollywood Paradigm has been Obliterated, Sort Of.

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Forrest Gump Taught Elvis to Dance: Photorealism & Visual History

Kerry and Fonda at Anti-War Rally
An "Associated Press" photograph circulated on the Internet shows "Hanoi" Jane Fonda and John Kerry sharing the stage at an Anti-Vietnam War protest. (more)

A picture is no longer worth a thousand words
Which photograph of Lance Cpl. Ted Boudreaux and two boys in the desert is the real thing? No one knows for sure, in the age of Photoshop. (more)

Sign of the Times: snopes.com
This picture, if taken at face value, seemingly confirms the worst of what is rumored about U.S. servicemen in Iraq. (more)

Corps Reopens Investigation Into Controversial Photo
by Laura Bailey
The Marine Corps is reopening its investigation into a controversial photo circulating on the Internet after the reservist pictured in the image said the photo was altered from its original state. (more)

A Photojournalistic Confession
by Kenneth F. Irby
I couldn't take it anymore. So, I confessed: I dodge and burn. There, I said it, in front of photographers and everyone. Except, this practice isn't really a secret or a sin. Unless it's taken to extremes, but more about that later. (more)

Digital Deception: The Cultural and Historical Context of Larry's Face
by Bruce Goldfarb
It's long been said that you can't believe what you read in the papers. Now you can't even trust your own eyes. (more)

Retouching is Excessive Says Kate Winslet (more)

Larry's Face
What if a guy took his brother's face and applied it to hundreds of different photographs. . . .

The Perambulating Skull
During the 1930s federal and state governments went to great lengths to build public support for New Deal policies. This included hiring photographers to document the hardships the country was facing in order to demonstrate the necessity for government action. (more)

Tall-Tale Aviation Photo
1920, the sky above Portland, Oregon, filled with biplanes! A historical photograph sold by the New York Times. (more)

Tall-Tale Poscards and Photographs
Jakalopes and monster-sized produce; who knew life on the farm could be so wild! (more)

Photographs Can Lie
They certainly do in the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953, the years of Joseph Stalin's dictatorial rule. Stalin's agents routinely arrest and kill as "enemies of the people" anyone who disagrees with his politics. Communist Party workers then try to remove any trace of these people from the photographic archives, and so from the media. (more)

National Geographic for Kids: Photofoolery Test
Prof. Robert Baird claims that "Even some of my college students will be fooled by some of these images." (more)