Thread by @laenorca_stille, Early 1930s-1950s photoshop. A thread concept of double exposures, blended backgrounds, and [...]

Early 1930s-1950s photoshop. A thread

concept of double exposures, blended backgrounds, and foreground and background blur were highly developed

Magnify original image and then do pixelated blur was also achieved quite well

1920s ghost seer racket using double exposure on right.

Perfect lighting on a few of these, very stunning and professional magic marker method

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2015/09/25/famous-fakes-10-celebrated-wartime-photos-that-were-staged-edited-or-fabricated/

Famous Fakes - 10 Celebrated Wartime Photos That Were Staged, Altered or Fabricated - MilitaryHis...

“Some of history’s most iconic images of warfare were fabricated, staged or manipulated. Here are some of the more famous examples.” IN JANUARY 2014, the Associated Press announced that it had cut...

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2015/09/25/famous-fakes-10-celebrated-wartime-photos-that-were-staged-edited-or-fabricated/

Photo is a mixture of 3 photos collaged together in 1902. How the hell did this person find the original 1860s negatives from around the country to reprint as one image

https://militaryhistorynow.com/2015/09/25/famous-fakes-10-celebrated-wartime-photos-that-were-staged-edited-or-fabricated/

Here is a more mordern version

https://www.pocket-lint.com/apps/news/adobe/140252-30-famous-photoshopped-and-doctored-images-from-across-the-ages

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Kirov#/media/File:Kirovfuneral.jpg

stalin at the funeral of Sergei Kirov, a politburo member, whose murder was used to conduct the great purge

Here is a composite of 3 different images of forces crossing the dnieper river

German published and then airbrushed and paineted over with multiple double exposures and lightening and darkening overlays Soviet version

https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/stalin-photo-manipulation-1922-1953/
this one. they added more people 4 years later after the photo was initially released

Stalin had a bout of deadly smallpox. His face was completely pockmarked and his eyes were probably messed up. He was possibly blind. You would never think so from photo

Prime Ministers had to look like they had their a game and not to answer to a king

Mussolini was too fat to ride a horse. Fat fuq!!!

Which of these two are more believable??

This one is by far more subtly creepier this was around 1917 Russia

To show how Jewy the 1917 revolution was

this image was retouched and the orginal background sign was changed from "jewelry, gold, silver" to "all your needs will be gained in struggle"

Motherfuckers are too lazy to have political riot 5 blocks away from where they live

Not a photoshop
just stalin being a fut fuck groyper

Subtly over time they did photo/painting manipulation to make stalin, less georgian and more hardcore ben shapiro level khazar

Holyshit!
Every communist official can be described as someone with a sever personality/looks defect that make them envious of anything that is good...

Just think of all the moles and wineskin birthmarks they erased off of this guys bald head