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Photo Retouching in History

Hany Farid at Dartmouth has an extensively illustrated page of photo retouching samples from 1860 to present: Lincoln's head composited onto John Calhoun's body, Matthew Brady's picture of General Sherman and his generals (with one general added to the original photo to complete things), Mao removing images of persons officially out of favor with the gov't, the National Geographic's altering of the Great Pyramids of Giza to fit them into the cover's aspect ratio pleasingly, and more.

[via Kottke and Boing Boing ]