Commissar VanishesDavid King
Commissar Vanishes
by David King · first published 2014
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on “A short history of image manipulation before Photoshop” ↗"One assumes that this has been going on since print media has existed" For an interesting look in to this, see The Commissar Vanishes: The falsification of images in Stalin's Russia. https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2017/08/commissar-vanishes... https://www.amazon.com/Commissar-Vanishes-Falsification-Phot...
on “Deepfake used to attack activist couple shows new disinformation frontier” ↗There is a good photo book called The Commissar Vanishes, that covers the topic of early Soviet era photo manipulation. It's a great book that covers some of the history of photo manipulation in propaganda.
on “North Korea not the only offender: 6 official photo fudgings” ↗I would refer you to an interesting book called “The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin’s Russia”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Commissar_Vanishes
on “Korean women remove pictures, videos from social media amid deepfake porn crisis” ↗The book "The Commissar Vanishes" presents bunch of before-and-after photographs in which various of Stalin's associates and henchmen are removed from photos after they become persona non grata. Some examples: http://tfustudios.blogspot.com/2009/11/commissar-vanishes.ht...…
on “Slate's experiment on implanting false memories” ↗