Re: [WikiEN-l] Fakes and people who cant tell the difference

Looks like a lithograph or some related process -- adds a hazy, drawn quality to photographs. Very common way of processing photos for reprinting in news sources amongst countries with less developed printing presses. The Soviet Union used this extensively throughout the 1950s; I don't know if it was ever very popular in the United States, and certainly hasn't been used there much in the 20th century. At least, this is what I recall reading somewhere, a long time ago, cobbled together with my own experience with old newspapers. I might be wrong many points, but it resembles a lot of the Soviet-era photographs I have seen, at the very least.