Photography before Photoshop: How Image Manipulation was Always There
01/11/12 08:33 Filed in: Photography & Art
Photoshop is the tool that makes the sky bluer, the model slimmer, the skin flawless and that puts things in the picture that weren’t there before. But image manipulation is not new. It existed before Photoshop was invented.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is hosting an exhibition devoted to manipulated photography before the digital age. The exhibition is called Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop and runs from 11th October 2012 – 27th January 2013. It shows fantastic examples of image manipulation from before digital tools and can make one laugh when seeing the beginnings of this nowadays-advanced tool.
The companion book is available on amazon and probably a nice Christmas gift for the photography lover.
Happy creative faking!
Ute Sonnenberg for www.rohoyachui.com