How much airbrushing is too much?
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Recently, I have seen I a lot of news about a Ralph Lauren model who was airbrushed to look reeeeeally skinny and then fired for being fat.
As a result, there has been a lot (more) of talk lately about this topic and thus some French legislators are pursuing the idea that all digitally enhanced photos should carry warning labels saying that they just that.
Now nobody needs to be told that the photo above is altered, but there are definitely too many cases where you can be mislead believing you’re looking at a “real” image. Now, there’s nothing wrong with altering images and creating interesting illusions, but it’s gone a little too far with human portrayal. N’est pas?