Microsoft Word - Document2Write no more than a 5-page paper (including the bibliography) identifying and commenting upon the two major forms of manipulation identified in the “Lange Picture Paper...

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Table of contents
Introduction    3
Form of Manipulation 1: Cropping    3
Form of Manipulation 2: Posed or Staged Images    3
Recent Example of the More Significant Manipulation    4
Conclusion    5
References    6
Introduction
    Photo manipulation refers to the alteration of an image's content to convey a message that may not be accurate or truthful. Photo manipulation can take different forms, including digital manipulation and analog manipulation. The Lange Picture Paper File, an archive of images taken by the Farm Security Administration-Office of War Information (FSA-OWI) between 1935 and 1944, contains several examples of photo manipulation. This paper will identify and comment on the two major forms of manipulation identified in the file and provide a modern-day example of the more significant manipulation of the two.    
Form of Manipulation 1: Cropping
    One of the major forms of photo manipulation identified in the Lange Picture Paper File is cropping. Cropping refers to the removal of unwanted elements from an image. Cropping can be done to improve the composition of an image, remove distractions, or highlight specific elements. However, cropping can also be used to manipulate an image's meaning. In the Lange Picture Paper File, cropping was used to remove contextual elements that may have contradicted the intended message of the image. For example, one of the images in the file, titled "The Raisin Pickers," shows two women and a child standing in a field (Fang et al., 2020). The original image shows a white man standing on the left side of the frame, looking at the women and child. However, in the cropped version of the image, the man has been removed, leaving only the women and child in the frame. The cropped version of the image conveys a message of poverty and hardship without the presence of a white authority figure (Qi et...