Friday, December 7, 2007

Fashion Ethics

First of all they add about 10 pounds of make-up the the girls face before.
Second they extended her neck, and made her shoulders more contoured
Then they make her lips more prominent
They airbrushed a lot of her face and gave her a perfect complexion
finally they raised her eyebrows up and made her eyes bigger, and more radiant.

I think that when advertising beauty, it gives people false expectations of what they should look like. Enough people in this world think so horribly of themselves due to the media shining light on what seems to be "perfection"

When you are changing to make the people seem perfect, and change everything about them, that is wrong, but when you change something minor to help a person, like a blemish, or a missing tooth, that's okay.

They are similar because people don't want to be lied to, especially when it directly impacts what they think of themselves, and the world around them. In photojournalism i think the rules should be and are much stricter because the whole point of photojournalism is to tell a story through a picture, and you don't want to be given a false story. Anyone can take a picture, but it takes a photographer to take a photo, and thus create photojournalism.

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