Getting the image right

by Richard on December 21, 2005

Media Photoshop Retouching. So the camera never lies, eh?

Kudos to Dave Warnock

{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }

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George 12.21.05 at 1:21 pm

That’s really freaky, and scarily simple to do.

I don’t think I’ll ever look at a magazine cover in the same way again now!

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Richard B. 12.21.05 at 3:15 pm

Can I tell you one of the things I found frightening?

If one reads through the info to the end, they’ll find out how old the model is.

Much of the retouching that was done was to increase the sexual attractiveness of a 14-year-old. Which, I’m finding out, is not an uncommon age for many of the models seen on magazines for teenage folk to people in their 30s.

The dad in me is crying.

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Malc 12.21.05 at 4:19 pm

I’m sorry??? You sound surprised…… I mean, the doctoring of photographs has been going on since the 1850’s (with “Spirit Photos”) so the fact that it still happens isn’t really that surprising. Surely???

Take that conservitive canditate from the last election that used a doctored photo in his campain leaflet (then got caught).

In the words of Carly Simon - ‘It happens all the time…’

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Richard 12.21.05 at 4:43 pm

Malc - Course I’m not surprised. As you say, it’s been going on for a long time now. But the advances of technology added to an increasingly image concious society have taken this sort of thing to a new levels. The fact that we “know” that the images we’re presented with have almost all been altered in some way doesn’t prevent us from undermined by the impossible standards that these images set.

Richard - I noticed that too, and find it both repulsive and terrifying. The hypocrisy that both sexualises young children in this way and reviles paedophiles as the worst of sinners is beneath contempt.

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