Digital Retouching
This is a digitally enhanced photo of Sydney woman Deborah Luckie. She’s 50 years old.
A picture of her as she appears in real life is down the page.
If you were to see a photo of Deborah in a magazine, the photo above is how she could, potentially, appear after digital retouching. After a week of hype over model Sarah Murdoch appearing “untouched” on a magazine cover and the launch of a national body image initiative, the treated photo was commissioned to illustrate how removed from reality faces and bodies in the media can be.
Sarah Murdoch and Mia Freedman are hot. Like really, really hot.
But I don’t reckon that fact takes away from their years of experience, their first hand insight and the value of their contributions on the subject of tackling negative body image.
That was exactly the reaction we’ve seen this week though, from some who argued that these women were too beautiful to have a valid role to play in the debate and were misplaced on the Government’s Body Image Advisory Group that reported this week.
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Jen baker says:
You have hit the nail right on the head. This ‘normalizing’ of plus size figures is underlined in the media where so many younger reporters are what would have been called ‘fat’ two decades ago. Advertisements too use larger actors so that fat is now the ‘norm’. As you say,… Read more »
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Jody says:
Because of course, the sole cause of obesity is sitting on the computer eating fast food and drinking Coke :facepalm: Read more »
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