The Hoax Photo Database: Staged Scene

Techniques of Fakery
There are six basic techniques of faking a photo, none of which are mutually exclusive.

1: Inserting details. This includes placing an element from one photo into another to create a composite image, reproducing a detail of the photo by cloning it, superimposing an image onto another, or drawing-in details.

2: Deleting details. This is usually done by extending background elements over the unwanted detail. Or one can crop out the unwanted detail.

3: Manipulating elements within the photo. For instance, one can adjust the color, resize details, or rotate or move details.

4: falsifying the caption. (In a sense, every fake photo has been falsely captioned.)

5: Staging the scene. This is considered fakery particularly when it occurs in photojournalism. Varieties of staging a scene include using models and cutouts and inserting a prop into the scene.

6: Taking a photo at a trick angle. The most common example of this is the use of forced perspective.

Themes

Time Periods

Category: Staged Scene
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Whopper Hoppers Either staged or composites. circa 1935	The Surgeon’s Photo Staged with a model Reportedly taken on April 19, 1934.	Death in the Air Staged with models Published in 1933; debunked in 1984.
Mother Cat Stops Traffic Staged Scene July 29, 1925	Bloody Sunday, 1905 Staged reenactment 1925	The Cottingley Fairies Staged using paper cutouts 1917-1920
Pacific Sea Monster Staged with a log 1906	A Bear and its Hunters Staged ca. 1900	The Rope Trick Staged ca. 1888
The Martyr Lincoln Staged using lookalike late 1860s	A Sharpshooter’s Last Sleep Staged Scene Taken in 1863. Exposed as a fake in 1961.	Interior of the Secundra Bagh Possibly staged March or April 1858
Street Urchins Tossing Chestnuts Staged 1857	The Valley of the Shadow of Death Staged April 23, 1855	Portrait of the Photographer as a Drowned Man Staged 1840
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