In case you forgot to mention to your children that no magazine cover is a real cover photograph...
Here are examples of the many ways in which even pop singer, Katy Perry, had to be 'touched up' and changed in order to be deemed fitting for this month's Rolling Stone edition. Note that even her fingers and blood veins were artificially added! Still images below.
August 2010 Edition of Rolling Stone
Need another example to drive home the point?
Check out this Dove Campaign for Real Beauty video:
Check out this Dove Campaign for Real Beauty video:
Before (above)
After (below)
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I like the untouched version far better. It has a realness to it compared to the overly edited one. She's a beautiful woman as it is, why make her look overdone?
ReplyDeletethat is crazy. so interesting. the hands are what I didn't expect.
ReplyDeleteShe looks pretty darn good in the original picture.... I'd like to see more if these. I'm sure there are quite a few that aren't even that close to the retouched version.
ReplyDeleteLove the Dove PSA tagline: "No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted"
ReplyDeleteWe are so obsessed with "perfection" - it's insane.
I adore the Campaign for REAL Beauty by Dove. I read some blog post's days after i had my DD about how mother pass on their body image perceptions to their daughters as young as a year old. I made a choice there and then that i will NEVER criticise my body in front of my children (2 boys, 6 and 4.5 years and DD is no 19 months) and i don't, nor do i let anyone else criticise themselves or me, or my children's body. I banned Barbie's etc and we all eat healthy and walk everywhere. I tell my children they are beautiful EVERY day.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a home where my mum never criticised herself too openly but she was never happy and went on a HUGE crash diet when i was a teen, drastically lost 9st in 18 months, then got viral MEN C and put the weight back, she was then desperately UNhappy, which made me unhappy to see. I will not be like that to my children!
I don't see Dove doing these commercials anymore...
ReplyDeleteIronically her stomach is very edited and her stomach looks amazing normal... and I don't say that in defense of women and the attack of us I say that even in the "mens" view of it... the "edited" view of it is ugly and has no shape...She has one of those naturally very sexy stomachs that men drool over. I think they are so used to editing them now they have lost site of what a normal one looks like. BLECH!
ReplyDeleteWell, her fingers *did* look rather corpse-like. I kid! I kid.
ReplyDeleteUh, and her breasts, check that out, they implode them in the touched up version! This is exactly why our culture is obsessed with women's breast as sex objects and NOT as they were made for-breastfeeding and women's pleasure..
ReplyDeleteI love Katy Perry and I'm also a photographer. The corrections don't surprise me at all (although it sure seems like there aren't that many at all, she rocks a great body) but in general I think the photo is crap. I like how they "hide" a poor limb crop with text. Where is her other hand?!
ReplyDeleteOh I don't know... how often do we see a home photo and think something looks a little distorted? They added her fingerTIPS in because of that-- it's not as if she doesn't have fingertips. lol And the veins? Well, look closely, they didn't add the veins, they increased the contrast- you can see the veins in the first pic too-- and they added a warmer filter. There isn't much changed. =)
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The thing that bothers me is the smoothing on the tummy, the thinning of the thigh (next to the hand everyone mentioned) and the enlarging of the breasts. It is a sick world we live in when we have girls dying (literally) to emulate what they see - and we ALL know this is true, and keep on keeping on as if there is no moral responsibility into actually altering a human body to look in ways a human body can't or shouldn't look. This certainly isn't the worst I have seen, they stretch legs, and do all sorts of things - but I think those that are involved in the process of selling our daughter anorexia as beauty ought to be ashamed. I expect them to correct a shadow, lighten a dark circle under an eye, remove a zit - I get that. I think changing the shape of a person's body is ridiculous, especially a person that is already known for being physically beautiful. If the beauty elite can't even measure up, then who the hell can?.
ReplyDeleteUnder her arm looks deformed in the edited version...they took away the shape of her chest. Gaawd if she needs work theres no hope for the rest of us!
ReplyDeleteWhy did she consent to pose in her underwear, especially given that she is married and has a very substantial following among impressionable 10-15 year olds? And she is a singer, for God's sake, not a model or porn star or sexual freedom advocate. Finally, if a fully grown woman feels compelled to reveal her assets to all of humanity (I believe that that is a woman's prerogative once she turns 30), she should strike a blow for body realism and insist that the images not be retouched.
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