Photoshopping

Why Does The Media Care About Hilary's Glasses?

Felice Shapiro | Posted 05.22.2012

Felice Shapiro

It's important for us to go public with our outrage when women are not appropriately recognized for our accomplishments. Let's make it loud and clear that attempting to sideline a woman with superficial comments about her hair and her style won't work.

Why Beauty Ads Should Be Legislated

Seth Matlins | Posted 10.22.2011

Seth Matlins

Today we are beginning our campaign to create The Self-Esteem Act, a bill requiring "truth in advertising" labels be attached to advertising and editorials with models photoshopped or airbrushed to a meaningful degree.

Photoshop This Car!

Fark | Posted 05.25.2011

Photoshop this clowny car....

Defining Beauty

Katherine Schwarzenegger | Posted 05.25.2011

Katherine Schwarzenegger

In today's society, it seems like everyone is on the move to be at their most perfect, but what for? So you can look like the woman you saw on a billboard?

Another Photoshop Debacle

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 05.25.2011

Dr. Susan Albers

Here we go again. Didn't we learn anything from the Ralph Lauren photoshopping incident last year? See a clip of Crystal Renn, a "plus sized model" discussing her outrage at being made to look thinner in a recent photo shoot.

Economist Photoshops Obama To Look Lonely... Magazine Defends...

Posted 05.25.2011

The Economist is defending photoshopping a Reuters image of President Obama in the gulf for its recent cover on "Obama v BP." PHOTOS BELOW The magaz...

Debenhams & Airbrushing: British Department Store BANS Retouching

Posted 05.25.2011

British department store Debenhams has been embracing female beauty in all of its forms as of late. Back in January, plus-sized mannequins were displa...

Unretouched Madonna Pics Leaked, Turns Out She's Not Immune to Aging After All

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 05.25.2011

Charlotte Hilton Andersen

I think the shock came from the incongruity of a woman of mature age dressed like an extra from the Halloween scene of Mean Girls - a movie about high schoolers, in case you have forgotten.

Photoshopping Hall of Shame

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 05.25.2011

Dr. Susan Albers

Welcome to the photoshop hall of shame courtesy of Newsweek entitled, "Unattainable Beauty" (Click Here). It's likely that you heard about the Ralph L...

The Benefit of Ralph Lauren's Blunder

Dr. Susan Albers | Posted 05.25.2011

Dr. Susan Albers

Ralph Lauren has seen better days. This week his company has been blasted for allegedly firing a size 4 model for being "overweight" and photoshopping her into a grotesquely and impossibly thin woman.

Boing Boing And Ralph Lauren Clash Over Image Of Emaciated Model

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011

UPDATE 10/14: The Photo-shopped model, Filippa Hamilton, is alleging that Ralph Lauren fired her for being too fat. UPDATE 10/9: Ralph Lauren h...

Culture Zohn: Barbara Kruger: Head's Up from Paste Ups

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Patricia Zohn

2009-04-17-itsourpleasuretodisgustyouSM.jpg Even though these images are not her current work, they are every bit as powerful today. They tell us to stay alert, to be mindful, and aware that we can be easily manipulated.

Criminalizing Retouching

Eli Neugeboren | Posted 05.25.2011

Eli Neugeboren

There's a big difference between eliminating a zit and eliminating a person, and we should be wary of giving power to others to make such distinctions, and to base laws upon the distinctions they make.

Cindy McCain: Pretty in Pink

Leslie Griffith | Posted 11.17.2011

Leslie Griffith

Cindy McCain is no dummy: she's the chairwoman of her own company and the age of most grandmothers, so why did Newsweek make her look as if she is just another Paris Hilton-ized size two?