Manipulated Photography

What's manipulated here?

Gerry Uelsman's manufactured landscapes

John Pfahl's real landscapes

Pedro Meyer's angel

The components

The composite

Pedro Meyer's chair

Making people look "better" (or worse)

Mark Feblowitz by me

Arnold Newman does a hatchet job

Migrant Mother

Dorothea Lange's original

Glamorized migrant mother

The Iowa Couple

Making people and places look different

Albert Schweitzer by Eugene Smith

A Russian gentleman

 original photograph

  later version

McCarthy photograph

A famous incident in Dallas

As it "really" happened

As later imagined

Pedro Meyer's amputee

Ease of digital manipulation

Pickles by Henry

Wedding photo

Roll the video

What does this all mean?