Victorian photography

I wonder how history will look at today with advent of photo and digital cameras? But this is an interesting article photo trickery before Photoshop. I would think back then, most amateur photographers were well to do and the process was not easy.

http://hyperallergic.com/101979/victorian-photo-tricks-from-hidden-mothers-to-eyes-on-the-dead/

nothing new

There is nothing new in photography fakers. In 1917 two young girls took photographs with a box camera seemingly showing small creatures, fairies, in the garden with them. The fairies were cut out of little bits of paper. It didn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out the "Cottingley Fairies" were crude fakes but wackos and an allegedly competent photographer said they were the real deal. This included a big time writer, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle who wrote the Sherlock Holmes stories. It took years to debunk this obvious nonsense.
As for digital, one cannot help it if some people think the public's tastes have been degraded by the quicksnapper cameras and the world is going to the devil. No doubt professional photographers (who were respected and called "Professor" for their knowledge of chemistry) likewise bemoaned the Kodak and the motto "you press the button and we do the rest." Heavens to Betsy, what a low concept! Martha, get the Flit!

Mainecoonmaniac said:

I wonder how history will look at today with advent of photo and digital cameras?

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History will remember this era as obsession for putting online self portraits and pictures of food you are about to eat.

Some creepy stuff in the link provided.

The current state of modern photography is biggest garbage bin ever.