Happy Friday. Over at Vogue magazine, it seems the retouching crew was a little remiss with Mario Testino’s shot of Kate Moss and her daughter Lila –seems they…er…left off a few of her daughters fingers. Or worse, that her daughters fingers actually fused into her mom’s back.
So, we all know Photoshop happens. They’re in there taking out zits and making people skinnier than they really are, and taking out wrinkles and on and on. Yes, yes, we all “know” this. But is “oops, I just left off a few body parts” excusable? I don’t know where I stand on this. It’s a beautiful shot, but the sophomoric blunder isn’t lost on me.
Do YOU even care, or is it just expected that there will be some mistakes and faux pas along the way, so we should just get on with it anyway….?
(faux pas via Jezebel)
It is a beautiful photo, but no it isn’t excusable. I don’t think I would have noticed it if it wasn’t pointed out, but I would have noticed it if I was the one editing it…at least I sure hope I would’ve. 🙂
Testino and Moss are both amazing in their own right. Why did this requiring the poor Photoshoping in the first place?
What bugs me is they will print a huge mistake, but then tear up a photographer’s portfolio for even the smallest infraction. Just saying, don’t seem fair. 🙂
I think the photo is beautiful and would love to see it without such extreme photoshopping. I am one of “those” people who find pores, flaws etc beautiful in people and wonder why it has become so important to say beautiful is minus these things. I am curious what the photo looks like before it is photoshopped and would like to know if people would still find it beautiful. I not only have a hard time with the message we are sending when a woman is photoshopped to be flawless and thin but what about the message when we do this with children? More and more I am seeing eye colors enhanced and made to be a little more “sparkly” because we are eliminating what are considered flaws. Are children not beautiful? This may not be what you are seeking as a comment but what strikes me is that this photo needed so much work to be published the touch ups started to erase. Maybe that is the new beauty?
I wouldn’t have noticed if it weren’t pointed out to me. But I do think it’s inexcusable. Vogue shouldn’t allow it to happen, and neither should Mario.