Could someone please explain the difference between a real photograph and what they're calling a fake? I'm just a poor dumb computer programmer who likes looking at pictures. I mean, if light goes into a lens and gets recorded somehow isn't "photo" getting "graphed"? I don't grasp the etymological issue here, any more than the aesthetic or artistic issue. The point is to make nice-looking pictures, right? Or do you also want to get into the issue of how much the Rodney King video was edited and whether the parts that were left out would affect an unbiased viewer's perception of whether an innocent helpless prisoner was being mercilessly beaten or officers were risking their lives subduing a drug user who was violently resisting arrest?
Ethics of divulging digital manipulation-Who should tell?
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