Exercise: Create image with photoshop

Original photo:

Macon D., at Stuff White People Do, featured a similar situation in which Toronto’s Fun Guide (badly) photoshopped a black man onto their cover because their “goal was to depict the diversity of Toronto and its residents” (story here) (images also sent in by fds and Michael G.):

Original photo:

Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California Dorothea Lange (American, 1895–1965)

Resource:

Doctoring Diversity: Race And Photoshop

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/dorothea-lange-biography-with-photo-gallery/3097/

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