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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1720606.htm>>>
>>>I've already seen the famous
Yalta photograph retouched for the history textbook, so FDR has nothing in his fingers.
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>>>What's next? Purging congressional videos?
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>>Yup. The famous photo of the Beatles crossing the street, is altered also.
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>But in cases like the Beatles picture it matters when and why.
>If it was done for purposes of, say, an album cover, that's common. How many models' photos do you think make it to a magazine unretouched?
Sure, if your brushing away pimples and such it is common. But for a cigarette?
Wasn't that part of the real culture back then? Why are they trying to hide it?
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