List of photograph manipulation incidents
Notable revelations of photo manipulation have occurred in a number of domains including politics, fashion, and journalism.
The Times speculated that at least one of these photos may have been digitally manipulated to give a false impression of Kim's recovery.
In November of 2014, Russian state television aired purported leaked satellite photographs showing MH17 being fired on by a Ukrainian fighter jet.
[6] Russia's defense ministry published photos purporting to show missile launchers belonging to the Ukrainian army positioned near the eastern border days before the crash.
A report by the investigative journalism website Bellingcat described the photos as "unequivocally" altered to falsify the dates at which they were taken.
[7] The Indian government's Press Information Bureau was widely criticized and mocked when it tweeted a photo of Indian prime minister Narendra Modi looking out an airplane window, with a separate photo of flooding in Chennai crudely inserted into the view of the window.
Newsweek used the mugshot unaltered, whereas Time released one that made Simpson's face appear darker, blurrier and unshaven.
[11] In the early media coverage of the 2003 Iraq War, a minor controversy erupted when it was revealed that Los Angeles Times photographer Brian Walski had taken two images and made a more dramatic composite.
[12] A number of allegations of improper photo manipulation were made in relation to journalistic coverage of the 2006 Lebanon War.
[13] In July 2009, The New York Times Magazine published a photo essay by photographer Edgar Martins titled "Ruins of the Second Gilded Age".
Martins claimed that the photos in the essay were not digitally manipulated and had previously stated that he eschewed any post-production in his work.
The Times magazine later removed the essay from its website, with a statement that editors had "confronted the photographer and determined that most of the images did not wholly reflect the reality they purported to show".
The June 19, 2010 issue of The Economist magazine used a photograph of Barack Obama turned away from the camera with an oil rig in the background.
In a statement to the Times, an editor of The Economist said that Charlotte Randolph, the parish president, had been removed only to avoid confusing readers, and not to "make a political point".
[16] Osama Saraya, Al-Ahram's editor-in-chief, defended the altered photo, stating that it was meant to underscore Egypt's leading role in the peace process: "The expressionist photo is... a brief, live and true expression of the prominent stance of President Mubarak in the Palestinian issue, his unique role in leading it before Washington or any other.
A number of Hasidic newspapers, including the Brooklyn-based Di Tzeitung published a version of the photo in which the two women present, Hillary Clinton and Audrey Tomason, were erased.
When others started claiming to be the subject of the photo, a 25-year-old Hungarian man named Péter Guzli came forward and explained that he did not want any publicity.
The original copy of the Beatles' Abbey Road album cover shows Paul McCartney, third in line, holding a cigarette.
"[10] Hoping to illustrate its diverse enrollment, the University of Wisconsin at Madison doctored a photograph on a brochure cover by digitally inserting a black student in a crowd of white football fans.
