http://www.stylelist.com/2010/05/17/healthy-magazine-airbrush-skinny-model-adds-weight/
This is a link to an article about a British magazine, Healthy, that admitted to airbrushing weight on to a model who was too thin. I thought that this was a good article because it relates to what Kat and Kaelen said in their presentations. So what are your thoughts? Is it ok to airbrush if they add weight or is itjust better to pick a healthy looking model?
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in practice, i don't think it really matters whether or not a magazine picks a skinny woman (and airbrushes to add weight) or a healthy woman. The only thing that really matters is the end product and the image that countless people will look at in the magazine. whether or not the public realizes that womens' magazines airbrushes (to add weight or remove weight), the important part is how the public perceives the imagery they are seeing. if magazines are producing pictures of women that contain an unrealistic, unattainable body image for the vast majority of women, then it's definitely a bad thing--it puts all sorts of crazy societal pressure on women to transform themselves into something that is unhealthy and unrealistic. on the other hand, if women are depicted in magazines as healthy and normal (whatever their weight may be), there won't be as much pressure to conform to a certain body type.
ReplyDeleteit is definitely interesting that this magazine ADDED weight to the model through air-brushing. first time i've ever heard of that.