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Removing Women from Situation Room Photo
Tim, Cindy S., and Kenny V. sent in an interesting story. The Brooklyn-based newspaper Der Tzitung, which targets the Ultra Orthodox Jewish community, published copies of the now-famous photo of...
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L’Oreal Ads Rejected by U.K. Advertising Authority
The U.K. has passed legislation aimed at reducing the amount of re-touching used in advertising. Sophie R., Dmitriy T.M., and my sister, Keely, sent a link to a news story about two ads, banned this...
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Deskilling Modeling: H&M’s “Virtual Mannequins”
The clothier H&M is in the news this week and Craita, Ann C., and Marjukka O. all sent in links to the story. It turns out that they are using a mannequin to display their clothes. Nothing new...
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“Fotoshop by Adobé” Parodies Beauty Product Ads
Cross-posted in Portuguese at Conhecimento Prudente. A lot of readers were taken with the new parody video, “Fotoshop by Adobé,” that has been making it’s way around the internet. Created by filmmaker...
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Creating the “Before” Body
By now, you’ve undoubtedly seen multiple examples of before-and-after photos that illustrated how re-touching is used to help celebrities and models meet those unrealistic beauty standards we see in...
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Retouching a Quarter Pounder
We’ve posted a number of examples that make it clear just how re-touched the images of people we see in magazines and ads are. Of course, everything else in those images is photoshopped too, leading...
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IKEA Erases Women for Saudi Arabian Audience
For the last week of December, we’re re-posting some of our favorite posts from 2012. Originally cross-posted at Ms. Mojca P., Jason H., Larry H., and Cindy S. sent us a link to a story about a Saudi...
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Re-Touching the Consequences of Extreme Thinness
A former editor at Cosmopolitan, Leah Hardy, recently wrote an exposé about the practice of photoshopping models to hide the health and aesthetic costs of extreme thinness. Below is an example...
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Wrinkle-Washed: Female Faces in Film Marketing
The philosopher Susan Sontag has written achingly about the way in which men are allowed to age and women are not. The great advantage men have is that our culture allows two standards of male beauty:...
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College Photoshops Black Man’s Head into Marketing Material… Again
UPDATE: I may have been wrong about this one and, if so, I apologize. The Univ. of Alabama has released a statement saying that the image is not photoshopped, including a quote from the student saying...
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The SocImages Re-Touching/Photoshop Collection
We’re cultivating a Pinterest page featuring revealing examples of re-touching and photoshop. Here are our nineteen newest contributions, borrowed from Jezebel, Buzzfeed, and Photoshop Disasters....
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New Documentary: The Illusionists
Writer and director Elena Rossini has released the first four minutes of The Illusionists. I’m really excited to see the rest. The documentary is a critique of a high standard of beauty but, unlike...
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Reimagining Barbie: Villain or Victim?
Earlier this year, Barbie posed for Sports Illustrated, triggering a round of eye-rolling and exasperation among those who care about the self-esteem and overall mental health of girls and women....
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Katy Perry’s Rolling Stone Re-Touching
In the latest re-touching leak, before and after shots of Katy Perry’s Rolling Stone cover were counterposed at Elephant this month and sent in by Dmitriy T.M. It’s a nice reminder that even...
View ArticleVintage Pin-Ups Before and After
History and women’s studies professor Keri Manning, along with Aydrea at The Oreo Experience, Sully R., and Dmitriy T.M., sent a link to a series of illustrations of pin-up girls (from the ’50s, I’m...
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