Abstract
To determine how well photomontages simulate real environments, 58 respondents were asked to identify which parts of 12 photographs of urban scenes had been simulated. Less than 14% of the responses were correct identifications of photographic alterations. The data support the hypothesis that the respondents could not distinguish real from altered environmental components in photographs. In addition, to assess whether the photomontage technique affected preference judgments, preference data were obtained for three scenes shown as slides, slides of prints, and slides of altered prints. An analysis of variance indicated that the three media accounted for 4.8% of the variance in preference, while the scenes accounted for 44% of that variance.
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