Thursday, December 6, 2007

Dove Evolution of Beauty

Changes to model's face:
  • Made her neck longer and thinner
  • Made her lips fuller
  • Made her forehead smaller
  • Made her eyes and eyebrows bigger
  • Added more hair
  • Made her cheek-bones more contoured

I do not think it is ethically okay to manipulate a photo like this, because it makes somebody a different person, instead of just enhancing them unlike with just make-up and hair that is done well.

It is worse than when something like the Oprah photo, which is outrageously unreal.

Changes with make-up and hair are okay, because they enhance a person, but anything done digitally like in that video is not ok.

The difference between fashion photography and photojournalism is that fashion photography is to sell a product and photojournalism is to tell a story. Both unfortunately change reality, but it is more serious with photojournalism because that is changing a story that may be very important, rather than just changing someones appearance.

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