‘It never happened – but the picture says it did’: 28 fake images that fooled the world
It never happened, but the picture says it did – and, as we all know, a picture is worth a thousand-word correction. Picture captions by Felix Bazalgette, Gabrielle Schwarz and Emma LoffhagenLeap into the Void, 1960By Yves KleinView image in fullscreen The image the world saw … Photograph: Metropolitan Museum/Art Resource/ScalaView image in fullscreen … and the one it didn’t. FBFalling Soldier, 1936By Robert CapaView image in fullscreen Photograph: © Robert Capa/ICP/Magnum Photos“It happened in Spain,” Robert Capa recalled in a radio interview 11 years after the photograph was taken. GSStalin and Nikolai Yezhov, 1937Photographer unknownView image in fullscreen Now you see Nikolai Yezhov …View image in fullscreen … now you don’t. FBThese 28 images show photographic fakes that have fooled the world.
Source: The Guardian April 12, 2025 19:33 UTC
