There’s a great article by Eric Wilson in yesterday’s New York Times about the levels of photo retouching that goes on in today’s fashion magazines…
WHAT’S NEW? Images of Reese Witherspoon show how a celebrity’s appearance can change radically from cover to cover.
Smile and Say ‘No Photoshop’
By ERIC WILSON
Published on NYTimes.com: May 27, 2009MOST readers of fashion magazines are aware that all photographs, at least to some degree, lie.
More often than not, images have been altered — historically with painstaking tricks of lighting and exposure and, more recently, with retouching software that can make celebrities and models look thinner, taller, unblemished, with brighter eyes and whiter teeth. Seemingly perfect. Advances in digital photography have made it so easy to manipulate photographs that cover models often resemble weirdly synthesized creatures or, as the photographer Peter Lindbergh described them this week, “objects from Mars.”
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