In the article it discusses the many issues still found today about copyright law, intellectual property, and the shift in photography into the digital era. Before the Internet and photo software, photographers would have to capture images and hoped that by chance they capture what they wanted. They could set up their scene physically or time a specific moment to shot what they wanted, but now where photo manipulation software there is no need to put as much effort into creating or waiting to capture a photo. There is the question as to if photographer are needed since with the Internet people can grab photos and change them to get the photo that are asked for. In one part of the article, they talked about how one person used a photo software to get a photo of two Olympic skaters to be seen with each other that never existed instead of actually taking a photo of the possible real scene. This is where the conflict photographer have with the emerge of the digital era where they are losing their practiced to more available and somewhat less expensive skill.
Since the rise of digital art, there is also the problem as to what is real and fake in the photo made with photo manipulation software, and like the Olympic skater photo the creator did use separate real photo of the skater but once they added together in one scene that person made a photo that never existed. In addition to these fabricated photos, the creator add a different perspective or opinion of the photo compare to the original photo. For example, the cover picture of O.J Simpson on Times Magazine used a mug shot photo of him, but when someone else change it they gave an impression of O.J of being darker and seen as evil in the photo. Even though digital art allows more people to exercise their skills in a affordable and easier access way they are still issues faced by people in this field.
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