Explore the historical evolution and visual significance of this theme through the extensive archives of Luminous-Lint. By connecting rare images, scholarly research, and diverse photographic techniques, we provide a comprehensive framework for understanding how these visual narratives have shaped the medium across the 19th and 20th centuries. Dive into our networked database of over 130,000 images to discover the pivotal trends, individual masterpieces, and deep historical connections that define this field.
| Fakes, forgeries, altering photographs and intention |
| 1 | Fakes, forgeries and deception |
| Combining different works to create a painting |
| 2 | Combining a daguerreotype with a miniature to create a painting (1848) |
| Altering and combining negatives |
| 3 | George N. Barnard: Rebel Works in front of Atlanta |
| 4 | Gustave Le Gray: Combination prints |
| 5 | Dmitri Constantine: Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens |
| 6 | Felice Beato: Indian Mutiny (1858) - Mutineers hanged |
| Mirrors and multiple exposures |
| 7 | Albumen prints: Multiple exposures |
| 8 | Cartes de visite: Multiple exposures |
| 9 | Abraham Lincoln as a returning spirit |
| 10 | Ranger & Austen: Clairvoyant Medical Examinations - Buffum & Cleveland |
| 11 | Cabinet cards: Multiple exposures |
| 12 | Tintypes: Multiple exposures |
| 13 | Real photo postcards: Multiple exposures |
| 14 | Gelatin silver prints: Multiple exposures |
| 15 | Cottingley Fairies |
| 16 | William H. Mumler: Spirit photography |
| 17 | P.T. Barnum: Spiritual Photography (1866) |
| 18 | William Hope: Spirit photography and séances |
| 19 | Richard Boursnell & J. Evans Sterling (London Spiritualists): Spirit photographs |
| 20 | Miss Houghton: Chronicles of the Photographs of Spiritual Beings and Phenomena Invisible to the Material Eye (1882) |
| Exaggeration photo postcards |
| 21 | William H. Martin: Exaggeration photo postcards |
| 22 | Henry M. Beach: Exaggeration photo postcards |
| Improving a photograph |
| 23 | Arthur Rothstein: Cow skull in the Badlands |
| 24 | The alteration of the truth in Soviet Russia |
| 25 | Press photographs with paint or instructions |
| Questionable prints |
| 26 | Lewis W. Hine: Power house mechanic working on steam pump |
| Themes - War |
| 27 | Faking war photographs |
| 28 | Boer War (1899-1902): Fabrications |
| 29 | Photographic fabrications of the First World War |
| 30 | Mrs. Gladys Maud Cockburn-Lange and her faked First World War dogfight photographs |
| 31 | Justification for the Iraq War (2003-2011) |
| Conclusions |
| 32 | Conclusions to fakes, forgeries and deception |
