Questions tagged [photography]
the art or practice of taking and processing photographs.
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What's the origin of Wikipedia's stock UFO image ("NARA NAID 303938034")? [closed]
Wikipedia's UFO sidebar template contains the representative UFO image Flying_Saucer_-_NARA_NAID_303938034_cropped.png, which looks like this:
This is a cropped version of an image from the National ...
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Were X-rays of Gazan children with bullets in their heads faked?
The New York Times has published a guest essay entitled "65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza". The article features three photographs of x-rays showing bullets in the head ...
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Was this image of Cecil Williams drinking from a "white only" fountain digitally manipulated?
Here is an image of a civil rights photographer named Cecil Williams drinking from a water fountain with a "WHITE ONLY" sign on it.
The image is dated to 1956. The sign appears translucent ...
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Was a photo of a burned Israeli baby's corpse generated by AI?
Shortly after the 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, released some photos, including that purporting to be a baby's charred corpse.
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What is the origin of this photo of a young girl with the caption "The world you were raised to survive in no longer exists"? [closed]
Link to the photo (from an unrelated, random blog)
This was obviously taken some time before 9/11 given the Twin Towers in the background. I have seen this picture many times over the last two ...
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Do these photos show Ukrainian children being trained to fight the Russian army?
From a widely-shared Reddit post:
Ukrainian children trained to use rifles against Russian soldiers
The other photos in the post are shown below.
Neither the post nor the comments provide a source. ...
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Is there only one photograph of Neil Armstrong on the Moon?
Christie's is a famous auction house. In their press release and marketing material, Christie's Voyage to Another World: The Victor Martrin-Malburet Photograph Collection, you can find the following ...
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Is this photo of a road detouring around a tree authentic?
This image has been widely shared. It has appeared on my Facebook wall after a recent event in Australia where a sacred tree was chopped down to make way for a new road. It was offered as an example ...
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Was Bill Gates' mugshot photo used in 2010 as a template for Outlook contacts?
This claim recently came up in a Reddit post but linked to this article from news.softpedia.com which states:
Getting back to the Gates mug shot being used as the generic profile
picture in Outlook ...
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Muslim couple provocatively pictured on beach — true holiday photo or fake (i.e. staged/set up)? [closed]
Recently I found a very provocative picture circulating in anti-Islam communities. It shows a presumably Muslim man, who is wearing a very small bathing suit and is standing next to a fully clothed ...
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Does this photo depict a human flesh market during the Russian famine?
This distressing photo has circulated around the internet including Daily Mail or The Sun as the depiction of people selling human flesh during The Russian famine of 1921–22. However, the source cited ...
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Is this a satellite image of Australian bushfires?
This image has been widely shared on Facebook and other social media platforms:
Is this a satellite image of Australia, taken recently to show the currently burning bushfires, or is it a computer ...
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Is The Venice Syndrome documentary cover photo real?
Came across below photo and eventually tracked it down to a cover photo of "The Venice Syndrome" documentary IMDb and the trailer at Vimeo :
This image is not in the trailer (haven't seen the ...
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Is this photo showing a woman standing in the nude before teenagers real?
There's a photo going around Twitter and the right-wing blogosphere of a woman standing in the nude at an art exhibition attended by a bunch of teenagers.
I do not want to embed this photo, as it ...
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Are these photos of burned home surrounded by pristine trees in California due to the forest fires real?
These photos are circulating on social media. Are they real? How can a forest fire burn homes in the center of a forest without burning the trees?
Portion of Paradise, CA after the "Forest Fire".
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