Faking It: Manipulated Photography in the Time Before Photoshop

As a blogger, I am well used to coming across computer generated images of new devices, including both fakes invented by tricksters as well as less than honest images released by marketing departments. Being on guard against fake images is a hazard of covering the news, and if a recent art exhibit is any indication, this is quite an old hazard.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is currently featuring an exhibit called Faking It. This is a collection of manipulated photographs from long before the time of Adobe Photoshop.

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