'Before Adobe created Photoshop, there were other techniques used to manipulate photographs; collages, brushes and overlapping techniques' says D della Repubblica. Those images left from the end of 19th century to this day are not only bewildering (bewildering, because each one of them is so sophisticated that they feel so real, as real as a still from a surrealist film, like the Orphic Triology by J. Cocteau!) but also fascinating to look at. Some seem absurd and funny but they all deserve to be praised. MET Museum of New York will be helding the exhibition displaying all these manually retouched photos in October. So if you had a chance to stop by, don't miss it!
