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Should there be disclaimers on photographs that have been retouched in glamor magazines to accentuate physical beauty?
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November 12, 2009 09:58 PM
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I think everyone should look at a photo in a magazine and just assume that they are touched up. I think the problem lies in the way people idolize celebrities/models not how the media portrays them. I was alway taught not to compare myself to others, to do the best I could and that beauty was in the eye of the beholder. I have a little sister who is beautiful and could easily be a model. She was raised the same way as I was and has very few misconceptions of what people "should look like".
The root of the problem is that parents today not all but some if not most rely on the TV to raise thier kids. To teach them moral values. We get shows lke "Gossip Girls" "90210" "The Hills" etc... then we alow our children to buy into the materialistc views of these people, the shallow views on beauty and try to blame the people who put the shows on. The whole time there is a handy tool called the remote we could simply turn it all off. No views equals no worthless TV.
To the orginal point. We should expect that what we see is not real. These people are trying to sell something, sex, clothing, themselves, perfume; what it is is irrelivent. No one complains when they look in a "Better Homes & Gardens" magazine and see a perfectly white carpet in a room with ironed drapes, perfect sofas and pristine dustless tabletops. The media print or TV will do anything to make things look better cause who would buy a pair of underware from a guy/girl that let themselve look like crap. Ask yourself if you are selling a vase on Ebay are you not going to wash and polish first? The answer is YES.
The problems lie in us. In our own insecurities and the ignorance we allow ourself to live in. So next time you pick up a magazine look at the "beautiful" person and know its all just a fantasy. After that is there still a need for a disclaimer?
The root of the problem is that parents today not all but some if not most rely on the TV to raise thier kids. To teach them moral values. We get shows lke "Gossip Girls" "90210" "The Hills" etc... then we alow our children to buy into the materialistc views of these people, the shallow views on beauty and try to blame the people who put the shows on. The whole time there is a handy tool called the remote we could simply turn it all off. No views equals no worthless TV.
To the orginal point. We should expect that what we see is not real. These people are trying to sell something, sex, clothing, themselves, perfume; what it is is irrelivent. No one complains when they look in a "Better Homes & Gardens" magazine and see a perfectly white carpet in a room with ironed drapes, perfect sofas and pristine dustless tabletops. The media print or TV will do anything to make things look better cause who would buy a pair of underware from a guy/girl that let themselve look like crap. Ask yourself if you are selling a vase on Ebay are you not going to wash and polish first? The answer is YES.
The problems lie in us. In our own insecurities and the ignorance we allow ourself to live in. So next time you pick up a magazine look at the "beautiful" person and know its all just a fantasy. After that is there still a need for a disclaimer?
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November 12, 2009 09:22 PM
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I think there should be a disclaimer on photographs because they send the wrong message to females reading the magazines. Better yet, they should just not use any retouched photos. Who are they to say what is and what isn't beautiful?
The number of teens starving themselves is rising. They try to live up to these unrealistic ideals that are portrayed in magazines. Celebrities like Beyonce, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez are often called 'fat' or even 'curvy' to put it politely. They look healthy and still the media makes it seem like they're not skinny enough. If they can't get rid of retouched photos, a disclaimer would certainly work. How about a magazine with all real photos, no retouched photos?
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The number of teens starving themselves is rising. They try to live up to these unrealistic ideals that are portrayed in magazines. Celebrities like Beyonce, Mariah Carey and Jennifer Lopez are often called 'fat' or even 'curvy' to put it politely. They look healthy and still the media makes it seem like they're not skinny enough. If they can't get rid of retouched photos, a disclaimer would certainly work. How about a magazine with all real photos, no retouched photos?
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I believe that the photographs in magazines should NOT be retouched because the audience wants to see celebrities as they really look and not the weird skinny pictures that have somehow resulted lately after being photoshopped.
It is a statistic that women in general are getting heavier. Children should be allowed to see what real women look like so that they will be happier with themselves, their health, and their futures if they have some weight on them and yet try to look like the models that are presented to them because those models are shown as if they are what women should look like.
It is better to let children know that people come in all shapes and sizes and that it is what is inside that counts and how kind and helpful a person is.
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It is a statistic that women in general are getting heavier. Children should be allowed to see what real women look like so that they will be happier with themselves, their health, and their futures if they have some weight on them and yet try to look like the models that are presented to them because those models are shown as if they are what women should look like.
It is better to let children know that people come in all shapes and sizes and that it is what is inside that counts and how kind and helpful a person is.
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If a disclaimer is the least companies are prepared to do, then why not? There's precedent in the advertising industry. Look at any car commercial, for instance, and you will see disclaimers that the images and video depicted are professional drivers on a closed course. Since this is the same sort of thing -- representations of something that are distorted -- the logic would be much the same.
But better yet would be, as others have stated, not to retouch photos in the first place. And even better yet would be to question and even eliminate the need to have glamour magazines at all, where the editorial content is just a sidebar to the big fashion advertisers. (Have you picked up one of them lately? As thick as a phone book, yet you have to slog through pages and pages of ads just to get to the table of contents!) And that isn't even counting the editorial content specifically tailored to them. For example, if you have a lipstick company wanting to sell their new sheer lipstick/gloss combination product, you might write a blurb about such products and then run their ad right next to it. Stuff like this happens all the time. And a disclaimer won't address this root issue.
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But better yet would be, as others have stated, not to retouch photos in the first place. And even better yet would be to question and even eliminate the need to have glamour magazines at all, where the editorial content is just a sidebar to the big fashion advertisers. (Have you picked up one of them lately? As thick as a phone book, yet you have to slog through pages and pages of ads just to get to the table of contents!) And that isn't even counting the editorial content specifically tailored to them. For example, if you have a lipstick company wanting to sell their new sheer lipstick/gloss combination product, you might write a blurb about such products and then run their ad right next to it. Stuff like this happens all the time. And a disclaimer won't address this root issue.
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Even the celebrities are shocked at how retouched their photos are. I have heard comments like, "My original picture was so different, I don't even recognize myself"!
I agree there needs to be a disclaimer, not because fantasy isn't cool, but because CHILDREN see these magazines. The same goes in this world for food as it does for video, and audio. You are what you eat, you are what you read, what you see and experience. If you see pictures that you cannot possibly attain (even the celebs can't be as skinny as their retouched photos show them as being), then your sense of self as a child will become WARPED. This must stop. It's creating anorexic and bulemic people in droves. Is this what we want for our world? NO!! The insanity must stop! Label the pictures as retouched, and do it today I say!
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I agree there needs to be a disclaimer, not because fantasy isn't cool, but because CHILDREN see these magazines. The same goes in this world for food as it does for video, and audio. You are what you eat, you are what you read, what you see and experience. If you see pictures that you cannot possibly attain (even the celebs can't be as skinny as their retouched photos show them as being), then your sense of self as a child will become WARPED. This must stop. It's creating anorexic and bulemic people in droves. Is this what we want for our world? NO!! The insanity must stop! Label the pictures as retouched, and do it today I say!
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There has never been total honesty in photography since its early days. Portrait negatives were routinely retouched to remove blemishes before printing. As a professional photographer creating images both for my clients and of my clients, I can choose to use my expertise to light them well, position my camera so not to exagerate the perspective, and to finish the image to enhance the person's appearance. I could choose to do none of that and to snap them wherever they were, in whatever light happened to be falling on their faces, and to finish the images without doing any adjustments to exposure, contrast, cropping, or removal of blemishes, lines, excess weight etc. Unless the photograph was to be used journalistically, where publications would ban the last three items, my clients would not be very pleased, and would probably refuse to pay me.
As all adults know that advertising does not tell the truth, I suggest it insults the audience to introduce laws which insist on declaring retouching. If people really feel that way, I suggest they stop bothering to put on make-up, comb their hair, wear clothes with any artificial colouring of the fabric, or do anything which shows them in a better light than if they did nothing.
So far as children getting the wrong idea, it is surely up to parents and teachers to help guide them about what is reality, and what is fantasy.
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As all adults know that advertising does not tell the truth, I suggest it insults the audience to introduce laws which insist on declaring retouching. If people really feel that way, I suggest they stop bothering to put on make-up, comb their hair, wear clothes with any artificial colouring of the fabric, or do anything which shows them in a better light than if they did nothing.
So far as children getting the wrong idea, it is surely up to parents and teachers to help guide them about what is reality, and what is fantasy.
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