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Spy magazine – covering the covers

March 3, 2010

Above: Two of Spy magazine’s infamous “spoof” covers – Hillary Clinton as a dominatrix (from 1993) and George Bush Sr. with “cutout hair” (from 1989).
Spy magazine was a publication known for the manipulated images which often graced the covers, and the satirical wit which always occupied the inside pages. Spy ran monthly from October 1986 [...]

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In Soviet Russia, you don’t make Shop, Shop make you…

February 26, 2010

OOPS! is right – as in “OOPS! We over Shopped Taylor Swift’s face and made her look like Catwoman!” Ugh. [Photo source: Journal-Plaza.net]
Related articles…
What Did ‘Oops!’ Magazine Do To Taylor Swift’s Face? [Hollywood Life]
The Photoshop Awards: Taylor Swift On Oops! Magazine [dlisted]
How Do You Say “Scary” In Russian? [Jezebel]

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The Real Prince William? Really?

February 20, 2010

Prince William on the cover of Hello! magazine with darker, fuller hair.
For those of you out there who think it is only women who get heavily Shopped on magazine covers, I give you one of the dudes. (And a Royal Dude at that!) It seems Hello! magazine thought Prince William would look better with fuller, [...]

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Kourtney Kardashian calls BS on OK…

January 25, 2010

Left: Kourtney Kardashian posing with her newborn son, Mason, seven days after his birth. (Photo by: Albert Michael/startraksphoto.com) Right: Image from that same photo shoot on the cover of OK Magazine that has Kourtney noticeably squished, trimmed, lengthened and colorized.
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You know, I love it when the stars see themselves in magazines and [...]

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Lee Harvey Oswald – the Father of all Photo Controversies

January 2, 2010

Throughout history, I can think of no photo which has had its authenticity debated more than the photo published on LIFE Magazine’s February 21, 1964 cover of Lee Harvey Oswald. As a matter of fact, the “LOL” image above which was posted a few years back in a thread called LOL President on Fark was [...]

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