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English

Etymology

Coined by webloggers around the time of the July 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War in Lebanon in criticism of the manipulated images of the conflict published by journalistic outlets: blend of faux and photography; compare fauxtograph. (This term is attested prior to July 2006, chiefly in use for company names, without an established meaning, and probably coined independently.)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: f?t??gr?fi, IPA^(key): [fo??t????fi], /f???t????fi/
• (US) enPR: f?t??gr?fi, IPA^(key): [fo??t????fi], /f???t????fi/
• Rhymes: -????fi

Noun

fauxtography (uncountable)

1. (chiefly Internet) Misleading presentation of images for propagandistic or otherwise ulterior purposes, involving staging, deceptive modification, and/or the addition or omission of significant context.
   • 2006, The New Atlantis, issues 12–14, page 146 (Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center):

     Also, fauxtography, coined by bloggers writing about the Israel–Lebanon conflict in summer 2006 to describe both the deceptive modification of pictures by newswire photojournalists and the intentional staging of tragic scenes for propagandistic photos in the media.

   • 2007 November 5, Aaron Peckham, Mo’ Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined, page 103 (Andrews McMeel Publishing; ?ISBN, 9780740768750):

     Various bloggers have uncovered several cases of fauxtography in Reuters’ photo coverage of the Israel–Hezbollah conflict.

   • 2007 November 28, Cynthia Baron, Adobe Photoshop Forensics: Sleuths, Truths, and Fauxtography, main title (illustrated edition; Course Technology Printer; ?ISBN, 9781598634051):

     Adobe Photoshop Forensics: Sleuths, Truths, and Fauxtography

   • 2008, David D. Perlmutter, Blogwars, page xiii (Oxford University Press; ?ISBN, 9780195305579):

     Bloggers noted that when, in February 2005, California’s Barbara Boxer gave a speech on the floor of the Senate, she held in her hands notes that were a printout from BradDeLong.com, the eponymous blog by a professor of economics at UC, Berkeley. Conversely, mainstream photojournalism was shaken to its core by right-wing bloggers who pointed out errors, malfeasance, inconsistencies, miscaptions, and outright fakery in press “fauxtography” from the 2006 Israel–Lebanon war.

Related terms

• fauxtograph

References

• “fauxtography” listed in Mo’ Urban Dictionary: Ridonkulous Street Slang Defined by Aaron Peckham (2007; Andrews McMeel Publishing; ?ISBN, 9780740768750):
  fauxtography
  Staged, doctored, or misleadingly cropped or labelled photographs.

English

Etymology

Blend of faux +? photograph; compare fauxtography.

Pronunciation

• enPR: f??t?gräf, IPA^(key): [?fo?t?????f], /?f??t?????f/

Noun

fauxtograph (plural fauxtographs)

1. A fake, staged, or doctored photograph.
   • 2006 August 15, "Larry Hammick" (username), "OT -- a great fauxtograph", in sci.math, Usenet.
   • 2007 August 15, "Eliyahu" (username), "Re: Old news, new show: Billy Graham on Jews", in soc.culture.jewish.moderated, Usenet:

     That was one of the factors in the fauxtograph scandal a year or so ago. If AP and Reuters didn't photograph and publish the staged events provided for them, they wouldn't be allowed to stay in the country and would lose the ability to cover more staged events.

   • 2009 June 25, Cassandra Jardine, "Iran's Joan of Arc: dying seconds that last for ever", in The Sydney Morning Herald:

     Faking is as old as photography itself. In the First World War, faked pictures - fauxtographs - were circulated of the Kaiser cutting the hands off babies.

   • 1998, Jordan Stump, Naming & Unnaming: On Raymond Queneau, University of Nebraska Press, ?ISBN, page 89:

     Hélène suggests here that identity consists not of physical presence, but of a place within a system: without the coating and the papers that back it up, one can have no identity and thus cannot live among the Foreigners — one cannot join that (or any) society. These papers, furthermore, are based on three simulacra, three representations (photographic or otherwise, but each of which Hélène calls a “fauxtograph” [fausse tographie]): the face, the thumbprint, and the signature of the cardholder. The signature itself — the traditional guarantee of an individual’s presence — is nothing other than “that fauxtograph of the name” (203). It is not the real name, but only its false reflection, and it is this reflection alone that allows identity, because it has been encoded into a system. Like Derrida’s “Signature Event Context,” which Hélène’s untutored analysis closely resembles, this line of reasoning privileges the imaginary but nonetheless real power of the name or of its representations, which Derrida calls the “effects of signature” (328), demonstrating the presence of the singer by proving his or her passive and thus absent absorption into a system of representation of which he or she is not actually a part.

Related terms

• fauxtography