Cheers, photography nerds! Life magazine, your grandma's favorite childhood mag, shuttered in 2007, is returning! Except this time it's not going to be a magazine, it's going to be an Internet destination. And instead of publishing anything, it's going to be a service in direct competition with many other services.

Oh how the digital age changes people.

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It's not hard to make John McCain look silly in photographs, what with his perma-scowl and crazy comb-over, so one wonders why celebrity photographer Jill Greenberg, a loyal Democrat, put so much effort into sabotaging a recent shoot with the Arizona senator.

Not only did Greenberg use a strobe light to "[turn] the septuagenarian's face into a horror show of shadows," according to the New York Post, she also didn't use Photoshop to touch up the images the shoot yielded. To industry publication Photo District News, Greenberg admitted, "I left his eyes red and his skin looking bad." Funny.

Not laughing is The Atlantic. The magazine most likely to be found on Ivy Leaguers' toilets bought one of Greenberg's biased photos for use on their current cover, not knowing that it was product of such an "unprofessional" shoot. "We feel totally blind-sided," said editor James Bennet, covering his ass.

Greenberg's having her cake and eating it, too. Besides landing on the cover of The Atlantic, her tainted images have been a great source of amusement for the photographer, who has on her Web site posted an updated set in which she's added a monkey pooping on McCain's head to one and a mouth of razor-sharp, bloody teeth to another, complete with a text bubble reading, "I am a bloodthirsty warmonger."

Click through for visuals.

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Getty photographer Brent Stirton just won the 2008 Visa d'Or Award for Feature photography for his acclaimed project on the slaughter of gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Maybe you've seen those photos, maybe you haven't. (We say: Make the effort.)

But there's another set of photos you've certainly spied: the People magazine pictures of Brangelina and their kids. Having shot Shiloh in 2006 and Knox and Vivienne this year (though uncredited), Stirton may have raised more cash ($20-plus million) and awareness for charity with his celebrity puff projects than the serious photojournalism he's made a career out of.

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"Since 9/11, there has been an increasing war on photography," writes security scribe Bruce Schneier. "Photographers have been harrassed, questioned, detained, arrested or worse, and declared to be unwelcome. We've been repeatedly told to watch out for photographers, especially suspicious ones. Clearly any terrorist is going to first photograph his target, so vigilance is required."

But what if it's all been for naught? What if prohibiting photos at airports and train stations actually did exactly nothing to stop terrorism?

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In this, the week of handing out $10,000 Pulitzers, why not take down one of these ego-driven award winners? For starters, there's photographer Zhang Liang from the Chinese newspaper Harbin Daily, who just lost his job for, what else, doctoring a photo. This photo! In 2005, Liang won the gold award in the China International Press Photo Contest, but now it turns out the pic – "Over 800 pigeons at a square take the bird flu vaccine" – features two pigeons that weren't actually present when it was shot. And that's not the end of the fabrications.

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