In May 1995, Life Magazine unwittingly ran an altered photo by John Filo showing Mary Ann Vecchio screaming as she kneels over the body of Jeffrey Miller who was shot by National Guardsmen on May 4, 1970 at Kent State [wiki].
See if you can find the difference: Link | More altered photos at Wired
Lea
yes, the pole in the middle of the picture, and the weird shorts the person on the left of the photo is wearing are different in the doctored photo.
Denita TwoDragons
Why the heck would they do that, anyways? And who got their five year old kid to do the work…?
(C’mon, you have to admit that’s a sucky ‘shop job, y’all. I can see where they did the editing!)
–TwoDragons
Raqlaine
Man, big freaking deal, someone removed a pole that looked like it was sticking out of the woman’s head. I suppose the photo is more famous now for the pole-removal than the massacre aftermath it captured. Stupid.
Daniel Kim
It’s amusing to read the disparaging remark by Denita TwoDragons, describing the alteration as a “‘shop job”. At the time, photographic alteration was not done by digital manipulation, but by X-acto knife, airbrush and darkroom tricks. While the fencepost removal is not even as smooth as contemporary methods could produce, such manipulation was not a trivial matter of a few mouse clicks.
Denita TwoDragons
So sorry, I bow to your obviously superior wit and knowledge, Daniel Kim.
Really.
Honest.
*snicker*
–TwoDragons
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