James Estrin reports for The New York Times on the Altered Images: 150 Years of Posed and Manipulated Documentary Photography exhibition at the Bronx Documentary Centre.
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Adnan Hajj was found to have used Photoshop to clone and darken the smoke in this 2006 photo of Beirut to exaggerate the bombing damage. This photo was distributed throughout the media before the manipulation was caught by a blogger. Reuters news agency, which worked with the freelance photographer, immediately fired him. Reuters then withdrew all 920 photographs by Hajj from its database after it was discovered that he had manipulated a second photo.
