Welcome to Incremental Social! Learn more about this project here! Check out lemmyverse to find more communities to join from here!
silence7 OP , 3 months ago Because it's a pain to go do (and was especially so in the film era) and it change what the photo conveys in a meaningful way. Think of for example a photo like this, showing anti-civil-rights protesters in 1969: https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/e8bd6a64-3b5f-414a-af20-bdd8cc3d8c90.webp Blurring the faces would meaningfully obscure what was going on, and confuse people about who held what kinds of views.
Because it's a pain to go do (and was especially so in the film era) and it change what the photo conveys in a meaningful way.
Think of for example a photo like this, showing anti-civil-rights protesters in 1969:
https://slrpnk.net/pictrs/image/e8bd6a64-3b5f-414a-af20-bdd8cc3d8c90.webp
Blurring the faces would meaningfully obscure what was going on, and confuse people about who held what kinds of views.