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)
Removing fingers seems a bit extreme, or maybe sloppy, but next time you are at a museum with classical art take a good look at the statues from the Romans. They often removed the coccyx, because they found it disrupted the flow of body lines, and they found it aesthetically displeasing.
I don’t know if it really was published in vogue or if it is a fake ?
On the vogue website you can find this normal version: http://media.vogue.com/files/2011/08/16/img-0911vowell10201_162835286745.jpg
Only on the fashiongonerough blog is the photoshopped picture: http://imagesgonerogue.com/images/2011/8/1/kate-moss4.jpg
I am wondering why anybody would retouch an image of a mother with her child in the first place, except maybe to take away something like a zit or a bruise that isn’t supposed to be there…
It just goes to show how much of a lie the whole fashion and magazine industry is – portray people as they really are and stop feeding us images that are so called ‘perfect’ but completely untrue! I would frankly rahter see a woman with open pores and blemishes that looks more like the real people I encounter every day than these so-called perfect illusions of haumanity! I believe photoshopping encourages people to lie, and I don’t believe any picture I see anymore unless it’s one that I have taken and know is the true depiction of the subject! Otherwise, you’re just selling lies!
Maybe it’s time for “truth in advertising” , namely, when a photo has been enhanced, perhaps it should be so noted.