Visual Deception—
Digital Forgery
When is seeing believing
Digital technology enables manipulation of images:
subversion of the certainty of photographic evidence
Workers at plant (six African-American workers became
“mysteriously white and an Indian executive had lost his
beard and turban): Newsweek (March 4, 1996), p. 55
Abraham Lincoln and Marilyn Monroe
George H. Bush and Margaret Thatcher
Photo of fictitious meeting between then President Clinton
and Saddam Hussein