"A Tour of the World's Worst Photoshop Propaganda"

A great gallery at The Atlantic.

Comments

[heller]

#15 Dead

[JW]

Did you manage to catch their "20th anniversary" Doolittle tour about a year ago?

[heller]

Sadly, no.

[Joshua Corning]

Funny how LA times photoshopping did not make the cut:

http://www.photographyschoolso.....posite.jpg

"Those crazy dictators shopping propaganda...oh wait the LA times does the same shit...opps"

[PS]

But that well done Photoshop propoganda...

[Jay Carney]

Hold on... I'm taking notes here.

[Ed Schultz]

Need a pencil, Jay?

[Shucks, I don't need notes...]

...I no longer ask questions.

[Really Dark Orenthal]

remember me?

[Had To Be Said]

I'm shocked. Shocked.

[Beyonce]

Now that make you really really light

[Bernieyeball]

Pre Photoshop propaganda photo.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F....._Woods.jpg

[Hugh Akston]

You try holding that pose for 18.5 minutes.

[sevo]

"(are there any Stalin-era photos on the web?),"
Yep:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R....._Reichstag
Made those pesky 'extra' watches go away.

[Bar Student]

I don't think that one is any different than re-staging the Iwo Jima flag raising and both are some of the best pictures ever taken.

[A Serious Man]

How about when Stalin airbrushed Nikolai Yekhov out of existence? That's like the Mona Lisa of Stalinist propaganda.

[Otto]

It wasn't just Yekhov...

[heller]

He airbrushed your link out of existence too?

[Joshua Corning]

You link is broken

[Aresen]

Otto is related to Sugarfree?

[Otto]

Oops. Here's the non-broken version...

[sevo]

"I don't think that one is any different than re-staging the Iwo Jima flag raising and both are some of the best pictures ever taken."

I'd suggest you read the article. It wasn't a 'reposing' for dramatic effect; it was an attempt to hide the looting by the Red Army.

[Bar Student]

Doesn't change my mind, looting was common among all the factions. It wasn't like the guys erased from history like mentioned above. Plus it is 60 years later now, I don't care what the soviets did back then. The picture is fantastic from a purely aesthetic view.

[sevo]

"looting was common among all the factions."
True, but other "factions" didn't bother to retouch photos to hide it.

"I don't care what the soviets did back then."
'Those who fail to learn from history...'

"The picture is fantastic from a purely aesthetic view."
So long as you accept it's been 'photo-shopped' to look like that.

[Almanian]

from a purely aesthetic view

Sure, and Leni Riefenstahl won a lot of awards for "A Triumph of the Will", too. True story.

/kind-of-Godwin

[Bernieyeball]

Looks to me like her left hand is glued to the telephone, her right hand is glued to the chair arm and her shoes are glued to the floor.
That oughta do it.

[Marty Feldman's Eyes]

From our own lovely DARPA, for the "High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System" program.

At first I thought it had to have been a joke, but that *was* the actual picture from DARPA's own website; it has since been changed to something a little blander.

On the one hand, I'm glad to see that not a dime of the $40 million budget for the HELLADS project is not being wasted on professional CGI publicity shots. On the other hand, I'm not sure that they should be letting 10 year olds play around on their computers, as obviously happened in this case.

[Georgie]

Artist's impression.

[Almanian]

That is some quality dancin' there.

Also, that's SugarFree-level brutality - slap a warning on that thing!

[Paul]

Loaded question: Why do they all come out of China or the Middle East?

[Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee]

Oh, I think we all know the answer.

[Otto]

Well, this makes me feel better about the kind of crap I've done over at Urkobold.

Oh, and here's my answer to Representative Lee.

[Pro Libertate]

Crap? Au contraire, mon fr?re.

[rather]

I'd consider it more little boy diarrhea

[Spencer]

Is that better or worse than grown man diarrhea?

[Otto]

Thank you, sir. I probably should have said something like "were I trying to pretend they were real" to avoid false modesty. If I really thought they were valueless, I wouldn't have posted them, and I sure wouldn't have linked to them here.

[Almanian]

That's some good stuff