Long Before Photoshop, the Soviets Mastered the Art of Erasing People from Photographs — and History Too | Open Culture
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Toujours impressionnants cet effacement des gens assassinés par Staline. Quel inconfort historique de voir disparaître les traces du passé. Le négationisme peut s’installer et provoquer ainsi des crises majeures : sans histoire, nous sommes sans boussole.
Adobe Photoshop, the world’s best-known piece of image-editing software, has long since transitioned from noun to verb: “to Photoshop” has come to mean something like “to alter a photograph, often with intent to mislead or deceive.” But in that usage, Photoshopping didn’t begin with Photoshop, and indeed the early masters of Photoshopping did it well before anyone had even dreamed of the personal computer, let alone a means to manipulate images on one. In America, the best of them worked for the movies; in Soviet Russia they worked for a different kind of propaganda machine known as the State, not just producing official photos but going back to previous official photos and changing them to reflect the regime’s ever-shifting set of preferred alternative facts.
