{"id":4963,"date":"2013-07-22T17:12:47","date_gmt":"2013-07-23T01:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2013-07-23T17:21:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T01:21:42","slug":"is-one-of-the-most-famous-abraham-lincoln-photographs-really-lincolns-head-super-imposed-on-another-persons-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2013\/07\/22\/is-one-of-the-most-famous-abraham-lincoln-photographs-really-lincolns-head-super-imposed-on-another-persons-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Is One of the Most Famous Abraham Lincoln Photographs Really Lincoln’s Head Super-Imposed on Another Person’s Body?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends about the world of photography and whether they are true or false. <\/p>\n

PHOTOGRAPHY URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: A famous photograph of Abraham Lincoln is actually a picture of Lincoln’s head superimposed on another man’s body!<\/p>\n

To put the following into context, do note that photographs as we now know them today basically only started around the 1820s.<\/p>\n

So to see “photoshopping” like the following images in 1860<\/strong> is pretty remarkable!<\/p>\n

In 1860, a photograph of the Republican Presidential candidate Abaraham Lincoln were circulated (photographer unknown). It’s a dynamic, statesman-esque piece.<\/p>\n

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However, it’s also not actually Abraham Lincoln’s body!
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As you can see here, it is Lincoln’s head affixed to the body of the venerable Southern statesman (and former United States Vice President) John Calhoun!!<\/p>\n

Calhoun had died a decade<\/em> before this photograph was “made”!<\/p>\n

I do not know when the photo manipulation took place.<\/p>\n

The legend is… <\/p>\n

STATUS<\/span><\/u>: True<\/p>\n

Thanks to Henry Farid’s piece on photo tampering through the years<\/a> for the lowdown on this switcheroo!<\/p>\n

Feel free (heck, I implore you!) to write in with your suggestions for future installments! My e-mail address is bcronin@legendsrevealed.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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