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For instance cropping, color changing, photoshopping are all used to revise the photograph. Particularly in Susan Sontag’s , On Photography, she addresses that, “Photographs, which fiddle with the scale of the world, themselves get reduced, blown up, cropped, retouched, doctored, tricked out.” To repeat, this statement becomes more evident as it relates to Time Magazine’s released issue with the infamous O.J. Simpson where his skin color was darkened to make him appear darker than he actually was. Notably in Fig. 2 is the magazine when it was released in 1994, and it can be seen that his skin color was adjusted to make him seem darker. The editors might have done this to give support for the widely perceived racial injustices in America at the time. Likewise the altering of photographs is seen in many appearances and is generally unnoticed thus leading to the world of fabricated