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Death in the Air
Type: Photo Hoax. Summary: Photographs of World War One aerial dogfights were, decades later, discovered to have been faked. A book called Death in the Air: The War Diary and Photographs of a Flying Corps Pilot was published in 1933. It contained numerous pages of spectacular aerial photographs of World…


Giant Bear
Type: Real photos, inaccurate captions. Summary: Photos circulated via email showed a hunter posing with an enormous bear. Theodore Winnen poses with the bear he shot.A photo showing a hunter posing with an incredibly large bear began to circulate via email in late 2001. The large size of the bear…


Man Flies By Own Lung Power
Type: April Fool’s Day Hoax. Summary: A widely printed photograph showed a man flying by means of a device powered by the breath of his lungs. AdditionalApril Fool’s Day ContentTop 100 April Fool’s Day HoaxesThe April Fool’s Day Database In April 1934 numerous U.S. newspapers printed a photograph distributed by…


Moving the Body
Type: Technique of photo fakery. Summary: Photographers can create misleading images by arranging the elements in a scene. Photo fakery usually involves the use of darkroom tricks or image-manipulation software in order to alter a photograph. However, fakery can also be achieved simply by posing people or objects in artificial…


New York Evening Graphic and Composographs
Type:  Inventing the News. Summary: The story of publisher Bernarr MacFadden and The New York Evening Graphic, America’s first tabloid. Posted by: Elliot Feldman Although publisher Bernarr MacFadden’s newspaper, The New York Evening Graphic, only lasted a few years, its impact on mass media is still felt today, for better…


Sympsychography
Type: Hoax. Summary: A scientific article describes a new photographic process that is able to capture thoughts on film. A sympsychographic image of a cat. From Popular Science Monthly (Sep., 1896): 601.An article by the famous scientist David Starr Jordan (president of Indiana University and Stanford University) appeared in the…


Total Body Replacement
Type: Technique of photo fakery. Summary: A common form of image manipulation involves cutting-and-pasting a person’s head onto someone else’s body. Image manipulation software such as Adobe’s Photoshop allows photo editors to alter the appearance of their subjects in many ways. With a click of a mouse they can erase…

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