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The Bunker – News without the nonsense

From Stalin to Kate – The weird history of faked photos

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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News, Government, Politics, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Kate Middleton conspiracy theories have run rampant since that doctored photo emerged. But, altered photos of public figures are nothing new. Today in The Bunker, Seth Thévoz speaks to Joshua Habgood-Coote, research fellow at Leeds University, about the power of manipulated images throughout history.    • “Image manipulation techniques go back to the earliest days of photography.” – Joshua Habgood-Coote • “Photos are supposed to capture reality – but that has never been the case.” – Joshua Habgood-Coote www.patreon.com/bunkercast   Written and presented by Seth Thévoz. Producer: Liam Tait. Audio editor: Robin Leeburn. Managing editor: Jacob Jarvis. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Instagram | Twitter   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved

0:05.5

photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.

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Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?

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I loved going to college.

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It's good you can retrain and do something.

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1:14.7

internet in the last few weeks, you'll have seen speculation reach fever pitch over Kate Gate.

1:21.2

It's not just the unexplained disappearance from public view of a senior royal, it's the frankly

1:26.5

bizarre release of a crudely photoshopped image of the princess, which has prompted all manner

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of rumour, innuendo, conspiracy theory, and just plain curiosity.

1:35.9

This is nothing new. Photographs that are fake, or at the very least enhanced,

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have been with us for almost as long as photos have existed.

1:44.0

Yet the easy availability of Photoshop technology

1:47.0

and the increasing sophistication of deepfakes

1:49.5

has prompted fears that this is going to become a feature of our daily lives. Already the

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