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Hahn, Taylor 2009-05-08T17:12:05Z 2010-06-18T18:59:45Z 2009-05-08T17:12:05Z 2010-06-18T18:59:45Z 2009-05-08T17:12:05Z https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/14886 As digital photography has grown in popularity, it has lead to the development of sophisticated digital image modification software. This thesis employs Kenneth Burke’s theory of perfection-seeking behavior to examine the usage of digital image modification in modern society. Engaging the work of Jean Baudrillard, I establish the impact of image modification in everyday life through a lens of Hyperreality. I examine genealogies of photography and image modification as a means of rhetorically comparing digital technologies to the photographic processes seen prior to computer-based modification. The conclusion establishes the potentially dramatic implications of digitally modified images retaining an ethotic dwelling place as truth-telling forms of visual communication. en_US Wake Forest University Visual Communication Photography Rhetoric Perfection Hyperreality Photoshop Communication Digital Image Modification Developing Perfection: Understanding and Redefining Photography in a Digital Age Thesis Release the entire work immediately for access worldwide. Beasley Von Burg, Alessandra Hyde, Michael Curley, John Communication open.access