tom hagan's aerial shots show a world changed by the coronavirus and by global warming welcome to arts and culture 30 years ago in 1990 a computer program called photoshop 1.0 at the market the software made it possible for the 1st time for a large numbers of people to digitally improve or manipulate photographs of course photographers had already retouched and altered photos by hand since the 19th century but now fake is the norm we ask for target for as how they see it. ever since the advent of digital photography. has been using photoshop to brighten or emphasize certain parts of his images it's. doesn't change. my do what we call darkroom work and it makes

a photo legible but once you start retouching the human face so you can't see any spots for example where do you stop the boundaries of fluid if we don't sit strict boundaries we open the gates to hell. for many years. was editor in chief of the magazine made an effort to avoid printing manipulated function. we had an instance where a photographer had always wanted to capture much devoid of humans its usually crowded with 2 wrists so he just edited all of them out had he not forgotten to also edit out the shadows projected from the tourists onto the walls we might not have found out and there was quite a lot of that kind of stuff which left us both surprised and shocked. perhaps this trust was misplaced all along brushes were often used in the past to

bend the treat individuals who've fallen out of favor would be removed poses staged . trotsky wasn't just murdered he also disappeared from many photos miscellany wanted to be shown riding a horse without people seeing the person holding its altar to make him look more heroic or there's hitler who no longer wanted google's depicted with women other than his wife and. there's mao tse tool who didn't think it seemly to be closely flanked by others during a courageous so the 2 men were moved 5 meters back. from. that. and today the drama is being amped up more rockets smoke. a puddle of blood replaces puddle of water. a rolex judged to flashy magically disappears as to sweat stains. peter b.

ologist skin likes playing around with technology freeing himself from any commitment to authenticity. the skies are taken from one photo and the houses from another with just a click the 2 photos become one. and. become the it's bad i could spend 2 hours waiting for the right moment when the composition is just the way i wanted to be the more i can use the tools at my disposal and create a composition in my mind i still haven't added anything from another situation to the image but i've taken the synchronicity out of the life and i do this only to be able to participate in the debate into say we have other possibilities now and that's not a bad thing or and. so photoshop is 30 years old now and i completely own photoshop colleague michael kroger is here with me for

more on the history and future of image manipulation and we've got this lovely. our computer behind us 100 percent real of course well damn it too good to be true and i think in these days we have to ask ourselves what do we expect from full to fuel reality perfection pure beauty i think we should examine our own view 1st and we should question everything that's what we learn in these days was modeled pictures or instagram pictures for example we are only surprised by how much. and what we still don't expect to see manipulation. and documentary to graffitti like the famous national geographic photo of the afghan girl with the green eyes she was married from 1985 the photographer removed dust and dirt and. it's hardly visible but. elated it was discovered

that steve mccurry the photographer had also manipulated other less famous photos like these he simply removed people who disturbed them in the composition of the picture and. they looked better some of them don't. know why this is what you say but it does raise up the question. where does the truth and the lie begin right where is the line now those from national geographic was 1985 before photoshop we had. one now everything's possible deep fakes a really everywhere it can be made anyone with free apps and actually we were playing around with those early support are clear this is my career in titanic but who wore it better mike or absolutely. oh i don't know i think i think you were pretty pretty charlie didn't say anything we just uploaded

a single photo that was so easy and i think you look at me. and it's not all fun. games though is it but it's absolutely dangerous because here you see what's possible it's so easy doesn't cost anything a politician is appended to say thanks indeed videos that they would never say in reality that's the danger of our democracy and yeah and that's just that's just the beginning michael krueger thanks so very much thank you david for the good bye. and from deep fake now 2 photos that are surprisingly real german photographer tom hagen is not the 1st to take pictures from planes helicopters and hot air balloons but he is one of the best with his camera pointed straight down at the earth's surface he can manage just to create images that look as flat as if they were painted on the canvas now the height also gives him perspectives on our planet and on disasters whether they're human made or caused by

a pandemic. tom hagen is on the move and this project is a bit different than usual. his last project was the arctic. this is a man who wants to show us the world from about. the way it's being impacted manipulated and destroyed. its interests in the sport i'm interested in the scars humanity leaves on the surface of the earth i use aerial photography to document it i take a step back to get an overview and insight into how we mined resources how society functions and to expose the reality of human interaction with nature. landscapes like paintings salt extraction in france. opencast mining in

the last it's region of germany. tom hagan's aerial photographs used distance to create a closer understanding of what we are doing to the earth and for this psychological trick he needs part. of recent project brought him to frankfurt airport at the height of germany's lockdown flying over the largest airport in germany completely uninterrupted was a very unusual experience. thanks to corona some of the airport terminals remain closed tom hagen captions the historic moment. was its hinges and this crisis has turned things on its head instead of humanity influencing nature we now see night shows him parents on humanity nature has

brought every day you. life to a halt. tom hagan's photos force us to view our global problems as if we were looking at a miniature model railway civs. both fascinating and disturbing. only a star shack is the heiress to the multi-billion euro german car parts company. her great grandfather the company's founder profited during world war 2 from his ties to the nazis today stars i use as her fortune to collect art and not just any art but art that most collectors shy away from video art displayed and her own museum the yearly a star trek collection. the doors of the dusseldorf collection are open again and the art collector is pleased the billionaire heiress has been buying time based media rock 15 years her aim is to introduce as no many people as

possible to the art form for example to the works like those by american arthur just on show. but it's house to shake is getting people interested that setting her apart. complex i wanted to make the collection accessible online for a long time now and corona gave me the time to concentrate fully and take this step . i believe what we're doing is truly radical and unique finding our absolute answers are. there almost $900.00 works in the collection 70 of which have been made available online for free and without any restrictions hours of video material to browse through and explore like this shopping installation piece by artist in the form of british t.v. an afternoon in a shopping mall that starts off with a promise and ends as a nightmare when a failed architectural embrace. doesn't suit you. the

significance of some videos is only revealed on the 2nd feeling for example to be a stand alone news must go over in the english disguise which portrays silent snapshots from the queer technica munity in kiev. really a starship isn't worried about visitors staying away from her exhibitions because they can watch the world's online. we don't want to somalia media after is always tied to space and time to the place where it shone i mean it has to be installed and viewing these installations is such a special experience that looking at it at home or online will never replace the real thing. video for everyone an ambitious and exciting project from you list.

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