Cultural Studies 100 : Sarah Klein's noon tutorial

Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Airbrushed Photos/ Old War Photos

It is interested to see how many little details they change when airbrushing a photo. The "before" pictures make them look more "realistic" and natural... more human. One of my favorites is the third photo of Alicia Keys... They even edited her hair! (Look closely at the left side of her locks). With airbrushing, they do a lot of fine tuning... such as smoothing out the elbows, back, stomach and breasts... in a couple they also enhanced a couple of breasts. I also noticed that they change and brighten eye colour a lot... especially for those who have brown eyes. Anything unwanted is removed... anything wanted is put in to the photo.

I dont see how these photos tell truth... The Airbrushed models I guess are a type of exaggerated truth... It is still them, however slightly altered. The old war photos still caputure a past event... although Trosky is removed. The photograph still holds truth of Lenin's speech... however does not show the truth of Trosky and Lenin's close relationship.

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