"He's chimping during the national anthem"
Dean Allen found the name for it – Chimping. I got a kick out of this video describing chimping.
Chimping is a term used in digital photography (especially when using a digital single-lens reflex camera) to describe the habit of checking every photo on the on-camera display (LCD) immediately after capture.
From Wikipedia
→ "Photography as a Weapon" by Errol Morris @NYTimes
But doctored photographs are the least of our worries. If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don’t need Photoshop. You don’t need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don’t need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.
Billboards no.05 (2008) by Branislav Kropilak
Lots of beautiful photographs on the rest of Kropilak’s site
Licorne thermonuclear test in French Polynesia
This is a scan of a (digitally restored) hardcopy of a picture taken by the French army and purchased in Tahiti of the French nuclear test codenamed Licorne, which was fired on July 3rd, 1970.
Image Fulgurator
It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.
...Hence visual information can be smuggled unnoticed into the images of others.
Alexey Titarenko @bldgblog
But I suppose this is what the world would look like if we could see the residue of everyone who’s ever passed through – a vast, multi-limbed creature made of tens of thousands of human bodies, winding its way through streets and buildings, looking for some place to go.
→ Ed Ruscha's best shot
When you look at it today, though, it does begin to edge into nostalgia. That’s not something that I aimed at then, because although it looks like a very old-fashioned can now, in 1961 it did not. That’s the one thing I regret about any photograph: that eventually it becomes historical, nostalgic, out of date. It begins to look like the age it came from.
