So a modern work can't depict things as they actually were? That's a
dangerous interpretation, and clearly wrong.

Copper Pin wrote:
>I agree, it is ridiculous to sanitize history.  I thought things went
>overboard when I heard they airbrushed out the cigarette from Paul
>McCartney's hand in the "Abbey Road" album cover photo.  But the difference
>in this case is that this is *not* a period photo.  It's a modern work, and
>as such, it's bound to modern sensibilities, conventions, and laws.

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