Commentary
When I showed my wife, who prefers gardening to politics, a photograph of a high official of the U.S. government who had changed gender (but not sex), I’m afraid that she refused to believe that it was veridical. The ability to change or forge images is now so great that it makes Stalin’s removal from past photographs of those, such as Trotsky or Yagoda, who had become nonpersons, look amateurish and bumbling. Seeing is now disbelieving, and my wife disbelieved.
