Good lord, Scientific American is killing it! I've been stuck on their site for ages, after being enticed by this heady diagram:
No, they're not testing these folks to see if they're replicants, but rather, using digital forensics to see when photographs have been doctored. Check out the full article; there are five ways to spot a fake, apparently. Four of them have nothing to do with Paula Abdul.
There's another feature on the site about photo tampering throughout history, with some fun examples. (I know nothing says "good morning" like Goebbels. You can count on me.)
No, they're not testing these folks to see if they're replicants, but rather, using digital forensics to see when photographs have been doctored. Check out the full article; there are five ways to spot a fake, apparently. Four of them have nothing to do with Paula Abdul.
There's another feature on the site about photo tampering throughout history, with some fun examples. (I know nothing says "good morning" like Goebbels. You can count on me.)
Circa 1860:
This nearly iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln's head and the body of Southern politician, John Calhoun. Putting the date of this photo into context, note that the first permanent photographic image was created in 1826 and the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company (later to become Eastman Kodak) was created in 1884.
This nearly iconic portrait of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is a composite of Lincoln's head and the body of Southern politician, John Calhoun. Putting the date of this photo into context, note that the first permanent photographic image was created in 1826 and the Eastman Dry Plate and Film Company (later to become Eastman Kodak) was created in 1884.
Circa 1865:
In this photo by famed photographer Mathew Brady, General William Tecumseh Sherman is seen posing with his generals. General Francis P. Blair [far right] was added to the original photograph.
In this photo by famed photographer Mathew Brady, General William Tecumseh Sherman is seen posing with his generals. General Francis P. Blair [far right] was added to the original photograph.
1937:
In this doctored Nazi photograph, Adolf Hitler had Joseph Goebbels [second from right] removed from the original photograph. It remains unclear why Goebbels had fallen out of favor with Hitler.
In this doctored Nazi photograph, Adolf Hitler had Joseph Goebbels [second from right] removed from the original photograph. It remains unclear why Goebbels had fallen out of favor with Hitler.
1942:
In order to create a more heroic portrait of himself, Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini had the horse handler removed from the original photograph.
In order to create a more heroic portrait of himself, Italian Fascist leader Benito Mussolini had the horse handler removed from the original photograph.
1968:
When in the summer of 1968 communist leader Fidel Castro [right] approved of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, Cuban writer and political activist Carlos Franqui [middle] cut off relations with the regime and went into exile in Italy. His image was subsequently removed from photographs.
September 1971:
The chancellor of West Germany, Willy Brandt [far left], meets with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev [far right], first secretary of the Communist Party. The two smoke and drink, and it is reported that the atmosphere is cordial--and also that they are drunk. German media publishes a photograph that shows the champagne bottles on the table. The Soviet press, however, removed the bottles from the original photograph.
When in the summer of 1968 communist leader Fidel Castro [right] approved of the Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia, Cuban writer and political activist Carlos Franqui [middle] cut off relations with the regime and went into exile in Italy. His image was subsequently removed from photographs.
September 1971:
The chancellor of West Germany, Willy Brandt [far left], meets with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev [far right], first secretary of the Communist Party. The two smoke and drink, and it is reported that the atmosphere is cordial--and also that they are drunk. German media publishes a photograph that shows the champagne bottles on the table. The Soviet press, however, removed the bottles from the original photograph.
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