The Role Of Photoshop In Our Lives
Check this video out — it’s great:
Sex, Lies and Photoshop NY Times Opinion Piece on the web by JesseDocs.com
http://video.nytimes.com/video/playlist/opinion/op-ed/1194833176718/index.html#1194838469575
This video is brilliant. My friends friend created this video reporting that in France, public health officials and psychiatrists have been meeting together and want to ban websites, censor medias and force magazines to disclose the degree to which their images have been altered. How many images that we see have been altered? What does it mean when the models themselves can’t even live up to their own images? Young people are growing up with icons and images that are destructive to their self-esteem. The images advertised to us (creams, pills, nail polish, etc ) will never actually make any of us perfect, because perfect beauty is only achieved with an air brush. If magazines aren’t going to disclose the extent to which their images have been retouched, Jesse Doe dares magazines to put the retouchers names in the credits.
For more interest on photo shopping, see this most recent article from the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/fashion/28RETOUCH.html
May 30th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
We crave these images because we need a picture of perfection. We escape through movies,magazines, books and art in order to experience catharses. “Real” images challenge us to face ourselves. We want to see images that we have no way of attaining and can provide the goal or escape or excuse we need. If we can be sold to- we are vulnerable. If we can see what is real- perhaps we can be stronger.
June 3rd, 2009 at 5:10 am
I love the idea that perfect beauty requires airbrushing - what does that even mean to the people who decide what goes in these magazines? Why is that their goal?