Smile and Say ‘No Photoshop’
WHAT’S NEW? Images of Reese Witherspoon show how a celebrity’s appearance can change radically from cover to cover.
MOST readers of fashion magazines are aware that all photographs, at least to some degree, lie.
AU NATUREL Peter Lindbergh photographed stars like Sophie Marceau without makeup for French Elle.
More often than not, images have been altered — historically with painstaking tricks of lighting and exposure and, more recently, with retouching software that can make celebrities and models look thinner, taller, unblemished, with brighter eyes and whiter teeth. Seemingly perfect. Advances in digital photography have made it so easy to manipulate photographs that cover models often resemble weirdly synthesized creatures or, as the photographer Peter Lindbergh described them this week, “objects from Mars.”
No one could reasonably argue that
Gwyneth Paltrow’s skin is indeed made of Silly Putty, as it appeared to be on the May 2008 cover of Vogue,
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