What made people think that photographs needed to be airbrushed anyway? I'm all for making the middle school kid more confident with their yearbook picture, but really does Cameron Diaz need Photoshop for her abs or already impeccable smile? WHY did fake start selling? This creates an increasingly ridiculous alternate reality of what is ideal.
It's like Andy Warhol once said, "Beauties in photographs are different from beauties in person. It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way. Photographers bring in a whole other dimension." And Photoshop brings an additional dimension after that! By the time you dissect any given photograph in a magazine these days, the model hardly ever looks like the image. If a model or celebrity doesn't even really look like their person in an image, what are we projecting this illusion for?
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