Food for thought! Recommendable! A historical reminder that we have been there before!
Fake or deceptive photos are not new!
Caveat: I did not read the entire article.
"Concern about deceptively edited photos feels like a very modern anxiety, yet a century ago similar worries were being litigated...
Portrait photography gave rise to an industry of photo ‘retouching’ - analog ‘beauty filters’ - to flatter subjects in a way portrait painters once did. This trend lead to questions about technology distorting our perceptions of beauty, reality and truth: ..."
"An 1897 issue of the New-York Tribune would declare the assumption “Photographs Do Not Lie” an “exploded notion”, saying:
“…at the present time photographs may be and are made to lie with great frequency and facility.”"
