. . . we regard the photograph, the picture on our wall, as the object itself (the man, landscape, and so on) depicted there. This need not have been so. We could easily imagine people who did not have this relation to such pictures. Who, for example, would be repelled by photographs, because a face without colour and even perhaps a face in reduced proportions struck them as inhuman.

Photographic retouching is almost as old as photography itself. And painting color onto the black and white images was both popular and controversial from the 1850s onwards. What makes a photograph an accurate representation, a just image Does altering the mechanically-produced image to increase its verisimilitude make an image more truthful? Should digitally enhanced images be admissible as evidence?

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