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November 19 2009

conscientious:

This kind of stuff keeps popping up, and things never change. Of course, to a large extent this simply is because people keep buying those magazines. As long as people literally buy into this business it’s not going to change. In other words, unless there is a large-scale boycott of magazines, unless thousands and thousands of their subscribers cancel their subscription, this ridiculous Photoshopping will continue (and putting a single, small photo of a normal woman on page 193 doesn’t change a thing - that’s like eating junk food all day long and then making a big fuss about the single piece of lettuce - hey, it’s healthy! - in the giant burger).

This kind of stuff keeps popping up, and things never change. Of course, to a large extent this simply is because people keep buying those magazines. As long as people literally buy into this business it’s not going to change. In other words, unless there is a large-scale boycott of magazines, unless thousands and thousands of their subscribers cancel their subscription, this ridiculous Photoshopping will continue (and putting a single, small photo of a normal woman on page 193 doesn’t change a thing - that’s like eating junk food all day long and then making a big fuss about the single piece of lettuce - hey, it’s healthy! - in the giant burger).

Via Conscientious Redux

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A photography blog by Robert van Koesveld around learning to see as a photographer: with my own images and process as well as whatever I think inspires, informs, extends or challenges in the struggle to learn to see. There are two supplementary blogs; LTS2 for photography and LTS3 for other Art. The links are at the top above this. They are a place to display others work that I find inspirational and that I want to refer back to. Comments are welcome use 'click to comment' or email me here:

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