Thursday, February 25, 2010

Pictures that Lie


I choose the picture of the University of Wisconsin's application front page, which was digitally altered by aggregating a 1994 picture of an African-American student into a 1993 football game picture. In my opinion, if you have to digitally enhance A PICTURE advertising diversity on your campus, then you have no business attributing such credit to your University. I saw this picture as "false advertisement" in the sense that minority students may actually believe there is diversity at the University of Wisconsin and when they actually get there, their surroundings may be entirely different than from what was depicted in the University's advertisements. I think manipulations such as this are very harmful because I know for a fact if I choose a school for an attribution it didn't really have, I would feel cheated out of a diverse education I was looking for.

3 comments:

  1. I agree with you. It is definitely false advertising.

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  2. I definitely agree with you Samantha. This sort of photo maniputaltion is definitely harmful and misleading.

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