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Photography

Case in Point...

Submitted by timturner on Fri, 2008-02-29 11:18. | | |

See this earlier discussion of iconographic photography on the campaign trail.

Hillary Clinton and the Devil
First spotted at Wonkette

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Retouching memories?

Submitted by erinhurt on Tue, 2008-02-26 12:09. |

Beauty pageant photo compared to retouched version
The above picture comes from a website that offers pageant photo retouching. Creepy, huh? It came up during a Google search after I read this article in Newsweek about the rising trend among parents to have their children's grade school pics retouched, as early as the second grade.

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Michelle Obama’s halo

Submitted by John Jones on Wed, 2008-02-13 20:30. | | |

Timothy Noah at Slate has been keeping an eye out for evidence that Barack Obama is, in fact, the Son of God. In his latest post, he linked to this picture of Michelle Obama from Reuters:

Michelle Obama's halo

According to Noah, the framing and Obama’s posture suggest a passing resemblance to this woman:

Mary with halo

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