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Response to readings

Dark Room Deception

These readings were quite interesting because it opened my eyes a little more about how today we have it so easy, just by the click of a button we can change reality (in a way). Back in the early 1900’s there was no such thing as cell phones and apps that could change the way a person looks, it was all done in a dark room which I think interests me the most. I have learned about this type of manipulation in film classes that I have taken where in the film like Trip to the Moon and The Great Train Robbery where these types of manipulations were used to create something incredible back then. In learning about these films and photographs its quite interesting to compare them because everyone believed what they were looking at was completely real. Obviously today we can notice when things are fake or real because of photoshop editing. I still don’t exactly understand how some of these photographs were made back in the early 1900’s due to their preciseness and how one could physically put that together only in a dark room, it’s quite amazing. Now that we have technology to do much more with this manipulation it just goes to show how we have transformed as a world full of art and how the use of expressive imagination can be used.