Photo retouching started out as something small long ago. Soon though, what was removing a blemish from a photo became morphing bodies to unrealistic sizes, changing skin colour, hair colour, and more and more in order to construct a reality in which we as humans cannot live up to, and are killing ourselves, inside and outside, just trying to achieve. It is true, photo retouching has had a huge effect on media and culture, and has truly changed society forever. Photo retouching, while entertaining to test its limits, is a lie, and has gone too far. Photo editors have been slimming thighs, making hips and waists smaller, and even going so far as to take parts of other people and place them on their subject.. anything to achieve the image of ideal perfection. This not only insults the models and celebrities, and even normal-day people, who are being photographed, but also the photographers who had taken such phenomenal images in the first place. Furthermore, photo shopped images of women (and even men) has enormously affected the psyche of modern-day society. Now girls and boys have created this image of self-loathing within their minds, are starving themselves or going out to the gym twice a day, all to be perfect. One day society must face the fact that we, as humans, are all beautiful, inside and out, and conforming to this idealistic symbolism of perfection will only allow us the delusion of happiness for a fleeting moment, then we will be onward in search of another way of exacting physical perfection. It is a never ending cycle, and a senseless one at that. After all, our flaws are truly what make us human, are they not?
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Photo Retouching
Photo retouching started out as something small long ago. Soon though, what was removing a blemish from a photo became morphing bodies to unrealistic sizes, changing skin colour, hair colour, and more and more in order to construct a reality in which we as humans cannot live up to, and are killing ourselves, inside and outside, just trying to achieve. It is true, photo retouching has had a huge effect on media and culture, and has truly changed society forever. Photo retouching, while entertaining to test its limits, is a lie, and has gone too far. Photo editors have been slimming thighs, making hips and waists smaller, and even going so far as to take parts of other people and place them on their subject.. anything to achieve the image of ideal perfection. This not only insults the models and celebrities, and even normal-day people, who are being photographed, but also the photographers who had taken such phenomenal images in the first place. Furthermore, photo shopped images of women (and even men) has enormously affected the psyche of modern-day society. Now girls and boys have created this image of self-loathing within their minds, are starving themselves or going out to the gym twice a day, all to be perfect. One day society must face the fact that we, as humans, are all beautiful, inside and out, and conforming to this idealistic symbolism of perfection will only allow us the delusion of happiness for a fleeting moment, then we will be onward in search of another way of exacting physical perfection. It is a never ending cycle, and a senseless one at that. After all, our flaws are truly what make us human, are they not?
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