Staged, doctored, or misleadingly cropped or labeled photographs intended as war propaganda, particularly to further the interests of terrorist groups such as Hizbollah and Hamas. Term popularized by Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs.
Various bloggers have uncovered several cases of fauxtography in Reuters' photo coverage of the Israel-Hizbollah conflict.
by jaqua August 8, 2006
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by Carol Ward January 15, 2006
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Cynicism brought on by the proliferation of digitally altered photographs. This causes the victim to doubt the authenticity of any impressive picture he / she sees.
The nature pictures Kirk's aunt Deann e-mailed to him were cool, but his fauxtophobia wouldn't subside enough for him to truly appreciate the beauty of the toad with a lion's body.
by Farmee August 16, 2010
Get the fauxtophobia mug.adj. - used to describe any single family, free standing house built AFTER colonial times in the United States, but still having atavistic design characteristics of actual colonial houses. Somehow this style represents about 80% of current housing stock, thus representing a stagnation in architectural design for the last 232 years.
I'm so sick of looking at fauxlonial crap. I would much rather live in a modern house.
Australia is leading the world in residential design because they are not burdened with propagating fauxlomialism,
Australia is leading the world in residential design because they are not burdened with propagating fauxlomialism,
by BakaTBakaSTakaTCz December 22, 2008
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Often presented as a guy with an expensive camera or photography equipment for the sole intent of taking pictures of scantily-clad beautiful women. Easily identified by cheesy pickup lines, but some are more subtle.
Often presented as a guy with an expensive camera or photography equipment for the sole intent of taking pictures of scantily-clad beautiful women. Easily identified by cheesy pickup lines, but some are more subtle.
by EyeTack December 12, 2013
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I just took a grayscale picture of myself looking to the side. I'M A FUCKING ARTISTIC GENIUS!
Dude, that's not photography, that's total fauxtography. Any scene kid on myspace can take a picture like that. That doesn't belong in an artshow.
Dude, that's not photography, that's total fauxtography. Any scene kid on myspace can take a picture like that. That doesn't belong in an artshow.
by JRotten November 27, 2010
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