Art Ethics: Grinning Assassin–The Societal Threat of Image Manipulation

Christy A. Schmidt
Manual Focus
12 min readAug 12, 2022

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Part 3 of 5 in the series

Protege — Copyright Artist Gene Stout. Used with the artist’s permission.

In the previous article in this series, we asked: So what if we manipulate images? In this article, we answer that question and demonstrate how harmful image manipulation can be to our society, our psyche, and our democracy.

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Christy A. Schmidt
Manual Focus

Author, photographer, professor, attorney, life coach, yoga enthusiast. Insomniac. See more at: www.christyaschmidt.com or www.caschmidtphotography.com.