Pictures that Lie

On the website Pictures that Lie there are a multitude of different photoshopped photos that misrepresent what actually took place in the photograph. I chose to analyze the picture on the cover of the University of Wisconsin Undergraduate Application taken by Haney Farid, because it shows how far some people are willing to go to achieve what they want. The picture is at a football game with several students cheering, the main photo is from a 1993 football game but on the left is a black student from a 1994 photo. It was manipulated by basically copying and pasting the image of the black student into the picture. The school did this because they wanted a picture that reflected diversity; unfortunately they had to doctor the photo to do so. I do not believe the manipulation was very harmful, the black student was a real Wisconsin student and I think it’s a good thing that Wisconsin wants to show they are diverse; of course a better way would have been to have taken a legitimate photo.