"The urge to modify camera images is as old as photography itself—only the methods have changed. Nearly every type of manipulation we now associate with digital photography was also part of the medium's pre-digital repertoire: smoothing away wrinkles, slimming waistlines, adding people to a scene (or removing them)—even fabricating events that never took place."
Before I visited this exhibit I had copied some old black and white photos of old-time movie stars in different settings. I then photographed myself, cut and pasted my head onto the body of some of the actresses and then copied them on my printer. Thus I had manipulated the photos and below are some of the results:
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