Re: "Photoshopped to Perfection"

Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote:
> The artist's technologies of choice may have changed over the
> centuries, but most of the issues surrounding human portraiture
> (aesthetics vs. truth, the politics of flattery and physiognomic art,
> etc.) are pretty much the same. ;-)

For those who don't know about it, the Photoshop Disasters blog
has a great selection of doofus-level picture manipulations, where
things have been Photoshopped to *im*perfection.

Such as where they 'fixed' the faces, but not their reflections:

  http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2008/10/marie-claire-on-reflection-perhaps-not.html

Or this piece of racial tokenism for the city of Toronto:

  http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2009/06/city-of-toronto-token-brilliance.html

Although I think my favourite is still Tatler's "pile of limbs" cover:

  http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/2008/12/tatler-legs-akimbo.html

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Frank Wales [[email protected]]
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