Yep, that's mankind although it's not photography. Photography is special, though, having been toted as representing the "objective truth" independent of the rulers. The fourth power of state, and the whole genere of documentary photography, relies on its credibility. As does photographic evidence in court proceedings, scientific evidence, etc. etc. With all of them waking up to find cheaters, what's the news in disclosing a cockup from a religious totalitarian state? :-)
I think it's great that state propaganda machines don't get away with such manipulations anymore, though. That we can snort at this one is a Good Thing either way. Jostein 2008/7/13 Dario Bonazza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > AlunFoto wrote: > > >> Powers of state has a much richer history than media when it comes to >> altering images. :-) >> >> I think it's quite interesting that we're all raging about media *now* >> doing what propaganda machines of many societies, capitalist, >> religious and communist all alike, have done for maybe a century >> already. > > Far more than a century. Even stone carvings in early Mesopthamia and Egypt > are known as propaganda spreading heavy altered "truth" if not pure lies. > That's mankind, unfortunately. > > Dario > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- http://www.alunfoto.no/galleri/ http://alunfoto.blogspot.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
