[MUSIC]. The last point I'd like you to just think

about, again something I've mentioned before, is the issue of manipulation.

every personal computer now, has some elementary program built into it that

will allow you to alter images, to one degree or another.

When you're starting to look at some of them, professional products, that

alteration can be very subtle and sometimes almost completely

imperceptible. It wasn't so long ago that National

Geographic required photographers to guarantee they hadn't used a filter on

their camera before accepting photographs.

Now we have a more prevalent issue about the capturing of the images.

How much they are changed for those in public domain, those that are used in the

media for the immediacy of the event without thought about reportage.

Or the legacy of those particular images will have when viewed in the future by

historians in 20 or 30 years time. Most images are now captured digi,

digitally. We don't have the artifact to the same

degree that we had with the film negative and there comes a point in saying, are we

going to be too reliant on the process of transfer from the camera to the computer.

To the published sphere, that there are too many steps in which images can be

altered or manipulated. What is authentic?

What is the image? And that's something that I'd like us to

consider by using some of the web references.

From four and six. And we'll talk more about that in the

next section. [BLANK_AUDIO]

Manipulation