Image and video forensics is the biggest challenge in current digital era due to rapid change or modification in digital content by using lots of available free software and editing tools. Authenticity of image and video is explained from image acquisition phase to storage phase through various forensics methods. The aim of this survey is to investigate image and video forensics methods using the intrinsic footprints of digital image during the entire image processing life cycle in the traditional image processing paradigm to cognitive image processing paradigm.