Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimazu Yuko Shimizu

Award winning Japanese illustrator based in New York City and instructor at School of Visual Arts.

Photoshopping In The Beginning Of Time (Of Photographs)

Magnum Photos: Robert Capa
Robert Capa/Magnum PhotosInvention of Adobe Photoshop sure made it so much easier to manipulate photos. And a lot of us, illustrators, rely on the power of what Photoshop can do. I am one of them.

I wanted to share this very interesting NY Times article from this morning (Sunday, Week In Review Section) Faked Photographs: Look, and Then Look Again. What we call ‘Photoshopping’ (i.e. manipulating photos) and fake photographs are not just on the cover of contemporary glossy magazine.

Read the full article here. See the slide show here.

(all the photos here are borrowed from NY Times site.)

New York Times: Faked Photographs: Look, And Then Look Again 1
New York Times: Faked Photographs: Look, And Then Look Again 2
New York Times: Faked Photographs: Look, And Then Look Again 3
New York Times: Faked Photographs: Look, And Then Look Again 4