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)
Vogue is a big enough deal I’d think no mistake like that should go “un-caught.” That being said, if it does, at least if it’s a web blunder it can be caught and fixed relatively quickly – although even the web is getting less forgiving these days – but print. Ouch. Wouldn’t want to be the editor or art director in the shop today!!
Bam. Before you know it, you opened Photochop instead of Photoshop!
Let me be the one to go out on a limb here.
Who cares!
Normal people dont look at or read Vogue, statistically the vast percentage of serious readers are described as caterers to the the market that puts anorexic models on the runway and call it beautiful, and accepts without reservation the retouching of every image to ensure a blemish free world. These people do not operate in the real world, they demand perfection beyond that which is possible in the real world, and within a mag like this … they will get it. Real people don’t read Vogue.
So who cares!
For as long as the market exist that demands that the mom and daughter above NEED retouching to be used in the magazine, it will occur and mistakes will happen. I honestly don’t care about the error, but care more about this girls sense of self while her zit-less face is plastered on news stands around the world. With this image, she just began her quest towards accepting who she is and how she appears, and this image will forever stand as the testament, of what she can never attain. The question will become, does this image become both her nemesis, and the want for other young girls? How much damage has it done?
So … who cares about the fingers, when the real problem is the alteration of reality via retouching. The problem is the people that will look at this image and accept that they are seeing “the real thing”, and use it to define beauty.
Wow… There are a lot of people on this forum who clearly have never made a mistake at work before… I bow in reverence to your collective perfection.
Honestly… stuff happens… No biggie. Like one of the previous posters said, it’s the equivalent of a typo. I seriously doubt a simple mistake will do anything to alter people’s opinion on the “to retouch or not to retouch” debate.
I don’t think this is a photoshop mishap at all. It looks like her last two fingers are tucked under her hand. The line on Kate Moss’ back is created by those two fingers adding pressure to her skin.