Jun 01 2009

On Heartless Retouching

Category: Creative Process, Photoshop & Lightroom, ViewpointEthan G. Salwen @ 9:37 am

ACMF_NG_072“My feeling is that for years now it has taken a much too big part in how women are being visually defined today,” photographer Peter Lindbergh recently reported to “The New York Times” in regard to digital retouching. He added, “Heartless retouching should not be the chosen tool to represent women in the beginning of this century.”

With this sentiment, Lindbergh brings the “too much or too little” arguments about retouching to an important level of social concern relating to one’s sense of identity. This is a lot more interesting than Continue reading “On Heartless Retouching”

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