Last weekend the New York Times Magazine published a beautiful set of photos of abandoned buildings and such, as a chronicle of the end of the gilded age. Now they've pulled them for probably being Photoshopped. Fakery!

People on Metafilter originally called bullshit on the Edgar Martins photos. Here is a fun animated gif showing maybe some Photoshopping in action! Points to the NYT for acting quickly. They still have nothing on the twin towers of Photoshop terrorism, on Seventeen magazine and the Iranian government.

Real Estate, destroying us even in its death.

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