Smudged Away
Original:
Altered:
For decades after the Kent State shootings in 1970, several magazines unknowingly ran a sloppily manipulated version of the famous Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by John Filo. See if you can figure out what's missing from the manipulated photo compared to the original.
Sources: http://journalism_jobs.tripod.com/a.filo.html
haha the stake in the head
Posted by: Graeme | March 08, 2007 at 02:31 AM
A 2 foot nail sticking out of the top of the womans head ?
Posted by: ExiZ | March 08, 2007 at 03:55 AM
blood on the sidewalk near his left leg.
Posted by: mister | March 08, 2007 at 04:03 AM
The person on the far right changed their pants.
Posted by: Jeffrey | March 08, 2007 at 05:03 AM
The giant pole that appears to be balancing on her head while looking at the sun.
Posted by: Russ | March 08, 2007 at 05:15 AM
Missing is stick on top of head and the entire photo was brightened
Posted by: Jim Gonzalez | March 08, 2007 at 06:07 AM
Weapons around the belt of the figure on the far right -- a soldier perhaps?
Posted by: Al Feldzamen | March 08, 2007 at 06:16 AM
What magazines actually ran the altered version?
Changing the brightness isn't a significant alteration; it doesn't alter anything that was present in the original exposure - but airbrushing out the post, inconvenient though its location, violates the integrity of the original!
Posted by: L K | March 08, 2007 at 07:22 AM
Definetly the post - the weapons/pants arn't missing - just darkened so you can't see them - notice all the other photos are darkened as well.
Posted by: Greg | March 08, 2007 at 07:24 AM
I feel sorry for the photographer, that is a great shot, but the pole out of the head is very distracting once you notice it. The second photo does look better.
Posted by: SomeGuy | March 08, 2007 at 07:41 AM
You feel sorry for the photographer? How about the dead guy?
Posted by: AnotherGuy | March 08, 2007 at 10:34 AM
Yeah. It's called false attachment.
Posted by: Dood | March 08, 2007 at 10:47 AM
The penis in the hand of the crying lady.
Posted by: Jim Miller | March 08, 2007 at 10:51 AM
they exposed it properly
Posted by: Jake | March 08, 2007 at 11:02 AM
What a terrible airbrush job. I know, this was before Photoshop, but come on!
Posted by: steve | March 08, 2007 at 11:14 AM
those aren't weapons you retards, he is wearing frayed jeans, he's a hippy!
Posted by: Jon | March 08, 2007 at 11:45 AM
The stream of blood from the victim was removed. It flowed near the feet of the person standing near the victim's feet right at the edge of the bystander's shadow.
Posted by: Jim Serrat | March 08, 2007 at 01:29 PM
There are two things 'brushed.
1. The stick "on" her head.
2. The slight darkness at the bottom of the picture, which is, presumably, blood.
Posted by: qxz86 | March 08, 2007 at 01:56 PM
"The stream of blood from the victim was removed. It flowed near the feet of the person standing near the victim's feet right at the edge of the bystander's shadow."
The BOTTOM photo is the manipulated photo you retards. CAN'T YOU READ?!? According to your logic, they ADDED that stream of blood.
Posted by: Jew Wanna | March 08, 2007 at 02:11 PM
For those of you saying there was weapons and blood are all wrong.
The official statement from TIME magazine about the source of the photo was that some anonymous person had airbrushed out the poll in the photo (which is obvious) in a darkroom and submitted it to the photo collection. There never was any blood, and suggesting otherwise is just idiocy.
The brightness was slightly altered and the poll was removed for aesthetic purposes.
Posted by: Joe | March 08, 2007 at 02:45 PM
I think the major difference was the stick that appears to be coming out of her head.
Also, the manipulated picture is cut off at the left side.
Posted by: Shadow)OS | March 08, 2007 at 03:22 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Kent_State_massacre.jpg
Larger version of (presumably) the original, though it's far lighter than the original shown here.
http://journalism_jobs.tripod.com/a.filo.html
Has the highest resolution of the "doctored" image that i could find
Posted by: Ademan | March 08, 2007 at 04:07 PM
Weapons of mass destruction.
Posted by: Ax Max | March 08, 2007 at 06:36 PM
Poll is what happened when Gallup asked Americans what they thought of our soldiers murdering our citizens. Pole is what appears to be growing out of her head.
Posted by: Spellchecker | March 08, 2007 at 11:00 PM
yes. nice pole
Posted by: deathmachine | March 09, 2007 at 06:28 AM
The figure on the grassy knoll?
Posted by: MuensterHornwallace | March 09, 2007 at 07:12 AM
Most of these posts remind me of those memory tests they conduct with witnesses of the same crime scene or scenario. Accept that we don't have to rely on memory because the pictures are right here. I suggest taking more time and actually looking. Thanks...
Posted by: Caleb | March 09, 2007 at 08:32 AM
Is it Ghostbusters II?
Posted by: Iain Lee | March 09, 2007 at 09:18 AM
The midget, where da midget. Whitey erased the black people too.
Posted by: Midget Assassin | March 09, 2007 at 12:51 PM
Cool, her shirt says "Slave". I've never noticed that before.
Posted by: Mike Harlan | March 09, 2007 at 02:05 PM
How come the photo with Oswald's face superimposed on a guy holding the same kind of rifle that killed JFK is not on this list. What photographic manipulation has had more impact than that one?
Posted by: Tony | March 11, 2007 at 08:44 AM
Mr. Brady's plans are sticking out of that hippie girl's head.
Posted by: Sam the Butcher | March 12, 2007 at 08:09 PM
Who cares. Ones less anti-war hippy to run for the Dems in the next election. I say nice shot.
Posted by: Eltwom | March 13, 2007 at 07:02 AM
Comparison GIF:
http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q187/amosharper/ShootingAnim.gif?t=1173813102
Posted by: amos | March 13, 2007 at 12:13 PM
This was nor changed by the photogapher but later by an editor.
Posted by: Mark | March 15, 2007 at 07:38 PM
nice job Eltwom
Posted by: Rcm | March 23, 2007 at 05:13 PM
"What if you knew her and saw her dead on the ground?"
Posted by: TrueSonOfLiberty | April 18, 2007 at 03:15 AM