Manipulated Photos Of Notable Historic Figures Before The Digital Era (Before And After Images)
Now this is talent. Before Photoshop, it’s all hand stiching and sneaky (clever) lightroom techniques. No, not Adobe Lightroom! The real lightroom!
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A photo of President Lincoln’s head was placed on the image of Southern politician John Calhoun to create the portrait on the left.
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Adolf Hitler had Joseph Goebbels (second from the right) removed from the original photograph after a falling out.
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Perhaps in an attempt to not have his presence dwarfed, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had King George VI removed from the original photograph of him and Queen Elizabeth.
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The horse handler was removed from this portrait of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini to appear more heroic.
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Russian magazine Ogoniok had the watch removed from a WWII soldier’s arm as to avoid accusations it may have been stolen (as he is wearing another watch on left wrist as well).
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The photograph of Ulysses S. Grant on the left is actually a composite of these three different photographs pieced together.
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General Francis P. Blair (on the far right end) was added to this Matthew Brady photograph at a later date.
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Like Hitler, Russian dictator Josef Stalin had a commissar removed from the original photograph after a falling out.
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