Re: MacGroup: 20 yrs of mac

[Lee Larson <llarson@Louisville.edu>]

On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 15:32, L. Michael Gozia complained:

> It is scary: I love history and now people can edit  or
> <underline>change</underline> history! 

This isn't that new. There are plenty of "official" photographs from the
USSR of the 1950s where somebody like Trotsky or Beria is no longer
there.I read a fascinating book on this called The Commissar Vanishes:
The Falsification of Photographs and Art in the Soviet Union. There's a
Web site with examples.

<http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/commissar_vanishes/>

There's also a famous case of a painting in the Vatican that was ordered
to be doctored by the Pope to remove the face of a politically
inconvenient cardinal shortly after his death in the 1500s. The face was
revealed by X-rays during a restoration during the 1990s.

Remember the movie Zelig?



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