A couple weeks ago in class we talked about the believability and truthfulness of still photography and motion picture. We discussed how photography and film were once the only rational and strictly documentary mediums... obviously not the case nowadays.
Here is the website of insane-o French retoucher Christophe Huet -- the best thing about this site is that you can see the progress of most of his composite images, just click the "making of" button on the right navigation and it gives you the ability to manually scroll through the process behind these images.
CHRISTOPHE HUET - THE FRENCH (re)TOUCH
-Marc R
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Nowadays, we have a hard time distinguishing what's real from unreal. With our advancement in technology in these fiends, artists can turn real into unreal and unreal into real.
When we see an image or a photo nowadays, our first reaction is to question whether it's real or photo-chopped. It's a real shame. With so much advancement in technology, we have little ways of distinguishing the original to the altered.
The upside is, we have a better tool to express our creative minds. Photographers and artists alike now have the tools easily available through technology to unleash their creative minds.
-Vivian Lee
Wow... thanks for sharing this. It's really crazy how advanced technology is these days. I found it really fascinating how he would take cut pieces from other photos and paste it, and work with it until it looked natural. With this technology, there doesn't seem to be any limits to what you wish to create! It is unfortunate when these kinds of techniques are used to create 'ideal' people...
-Dona
This is less of a comment about retouching and more about (un)natural body expectations. Recently on Ellen, Ellen was talking about the latest People magazine with Jennifer Love-Hewitt on the cover. And talking about statistics around our societal change in expected body images. I believe she said that about 30 (20-40?)years ago the average size of a runway model was 8-10 and now it is 2-4. The average American female today is around 12 - 14 (which even Ellen had to speculate the accuracy of that number, believing it higher). Apparently Love-Hewitt was being criticized in People for being fat. Ellen started off by saying that "first of all, no image you see of celebrities today are real. They have all been airbrushed and photoshopped to death." She then showed the cover of the so called 'fat' Love-Hewitt and asked if anyone thought the image of her was fat. The audience did not think so. Ellen then continued by saying that she "believes Jennifer Love-Hewitt was beautiful anyway that she is." Upon some research the controversy didn't stop with the magazine, it continued on to People's website, in the form of polls and in a section which is labeled "most read stories this week" (four articles in all regarding Love-Hewitt's weight), creating even more spectacle.
Until yesterday's article which was called "Celebs Cheer Jennifer Love Hewitt's Views on Weight" featuring Love-Hewitt's contemporaries bashing the media for their unfair treatment of all celebs that don't conform to Hollywoods (un)natural body image. All of this is great to shed light the potentially negative influences facing all those concerned about the amount of space they occupy, but what really got to me was after all was said and done (all the 'happy, happy, joy, joy' rhetoric) People actually had the nerve to use that space to propagate their own consumption. Disgusting! They started the controversy in the first place, and then when they were 'trying' to look like they were sympathetic, they used it as a platform for marketing themselves. (I think I am going to be sick!!). Here are the final two paragraphs from the article:
"Meanwhile, Hewitt herself shook off the controversy this week – with a trip to Disneyland with fiancé Ross McCall and three of their friends. "She went on a bunch of rides," says a friend of the 28-year-old actress. "She had a great time."
For more on the Hewitt bikini controversy, pick up the latest issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday"
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