Documentary

so end of last week beginning of this week i was ill and missed two very important lectures, first was a contextual on documentary and the second one was a visual practice, looking at the documentary power-point that was shown i noticed some familiar photographers name like Don mccullin and Rodger fenton. The lecture was mainly about how some documentary photographers changed the truth when people believe the saying "the camera never lies" the image that caught my interest was  The home of the rebel sharpshooter, Gettysburg

This image has been manipulated by the person was moved from where they had died to point and had their face move to face the camera, the gun was changed and placed in a way that seems very unnatural because if it was in the person hand when he died it would not have landed in this way.