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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 10, 1908

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 34, No. 24.

Fake Photography.

There are many who, tho doubting the sensational news items in daily journals, have thought surely that the pictures told the truth. But with the trick photography of the present day, the pictures are just as likely to be misleading as are the dressed-up stories by the reporters. For instance, it was shown just recently in a sensational article on the conditions of the streets in New York City, how that trick photography played its part in exaggerating truth. A little pile of snow three or four feet high was made to appear like a small mountain of tons and tons of snow, fifteen or twenty feet in height; and a little crack in a stone wall was so exaggerated as to appear like the opening of a cave in the side of a hill, and was so printed. The cave was said to be miles away in the Adirondacks, where a person had lost himself, but the crack from which the photograph was made was in a wall near the photographer's house. It is one of the evidences of human degeneration that such things are becoming common.