Photography is capable of lying and people should be aware of this when they view pictures.
Outright manipulations are the most blatant ways in which photos can lie.
They are conscious decisions made by those involved in the image making process. During the 1994 Winter Olympics, in the middle of the Tanya Harding and Nancy Caragen incident, The New York Daily News ran a front page photograph of the two of them practicing together. The problem was, practice started on the day the picture was published - meaning the situation portrayed had never happened. Inside the front cover of the News , a caption stated that the front cover was a photo illustration. A photo illustration is a photograph that was either set up, altered or manipulated, although most people are not aware of the difference.