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Mourners at Mao Zedong’s Funeral, People’s Daily . The original image shows the Gang of Four present, where in the digitally re-touched image they have disappeared. 

Mourners at Mao Zedong’s Funeral, People’s Daily . The original image shows the Gang of Four present, where in the digitally re-touched image they have disappeared. 

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It can be argued that the nature of photography becomes drastically altered, and its identity changes according to the uses it is put to. This article will discuss the many aspects of photojournalism that shape and manipulate the current status of photography. Its origin as a means of objective documentation will be critically analysed in relation...

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... persuasion. As an example , the official photograph taken at Mao Zedong’s funeral in 1976 (see Figure 2) which was first published in the , showed the Communist group Gang of Four present at the funeral. A month after it was published, another photograph ...