Between 1900 and 1910, Edward S. Curtis took a picture he titled "In a Piegan Lodge" The picture was in the lodge of Little Plume and his son Yellow Kidney.
Between the two of them was an alarm clock. In the darkroom, Curtis replaced the clock with a basket. When it was published, he caught all kinds of flak for
manipulating the picture. So, from way back, it ain't always... 'a picture never lies'.