Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Photo-Manipulation”
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If you read anywhere on the web, you’ll see people talking about how Photoshop (and digital photo manipulation) is ruining the purity of photography. People argue endlessly about this as if they could get everyone on their side. Guess what? This controversy is older than radio. Recently I’ve been reading the great photography history, How To Read a Photograph. It turns out that as early as 1898, people were purposely publishing their photographs straight as they happened to develop. In the 1920s there emerged a division between photographers over whether it was more proper for photographers to alter their negatives (and therefore become an interpretive art form like painting) or if they had to be developed as is. People had already been experimenting throughout the 1900s with the usage of different chemicals to affect their prints in different ways. Photographers even used different films from different manufacturers because they were known to give darker greens or more saturated colors or better grain. Digital photography is no different - it’s just that dark rooms took years to master while anyone can get the basics of the Canon RAW (or Lightroom RAW) editor. But, having seen that this division has existed within photography for the past 100 years, I don’t think it will be going away any time soon.