“Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop” is an exhibition that takes a look at manipulated photography from the 1840s until the 1990s, when digital photo editing largely replaced manual techniques. The exhibition includes some 200 works, from quaint Victorian trick photography to misleading propaganda images.
"The urge to modify camera images is as old as photography itself—only the methods have changed. Nearly every type of manipulation we now associate with digital photography was also part of the medium’s pre-digital repertoire: smoothing away wrinkles, slimming waistlines, adding people to a scene (or removing them)—even fabricating events that never took place."
Before Photoshop photo manipulation took a lot more work. Take a look at these amazing older manipulated photos.
Photo manipulation
Man Wheel
Eye Wall
Fairies
Woman Lamp
Juggling Heads
Building Blimp
Ghost Photos
Men in a mirror
Girl In A Glass
Double Heads
Diving Man
Reflective Streets
Kitten Girl