think you look a bit chunky in a photo?

[emmelinemay]

nevermind. Photoshop can fix it.

I knew photoshop was used a lot to tidy up edges, remove the odd bulge, take away blemishes, and generally make ordinary women feel inadequate my making other ordinary women look unrealistically beautiful.

But that's just scary.

Comments

[sushidog.livejournal.com]

Interesting article; it's a shame the photos aren't attached, i'd have been interested to see them!

There's an artist who takes photos of ordinary women doing ordinary things, but topless, and I was looking at his webpage yesterday; lots of photos of women in various locations in New York, SOme of the photos are really beautiful, but one thing that struck me was how many of the women in them clearly felt quite negatively about their bodies; even (perhaps even especially) those who had perfectly lovely figures felt fat and imperfect, and thought the photo of them was ugly. I think it's simply because we're not used, as that article says, to seeing beautiful photos of women who are not skinny and "perfectly" proportioned, so when we look at ourselves, we see someone big and ungainly, rather than someone normal-sized and gorgeous.