<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Funnily enough this issue was in the news in the UK today, with a political party calling for the banning of unrealistically airbrushed images in material aimed at young girls - <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/dont-beef-up-keiras-bust-lib-dems-take-aim-at-advertisers-over-altered-images-1766549.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/dont-beef-up-keiras-bust-lib-dems-take-aim-at-advertisers-over-altered-images-1766549.html</a><div><br></div><div>A commentator on the BBC mentioned a famous instance of this from British history - the Hans Holbein portrait of Anne of Cleves commissioned to interest Henry VIII in marrying her. He didn't fancy her as much when they actually met.</div><div><br></div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; 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font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; ">__________________________________</span></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">Rob Waller</span></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; min-height: 16px; font-size: 13px; ">Department of Typography & Graphic Communication</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; ">University of Reading</span></span></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font></span></span></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br><div><div>On 3 Aug 2009, at 22:18, Deborah Taylor-Pearce wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Cafe,<br><br>The article<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"Photoshopped to Perfection: The graphics editing tool is<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>praised for making people look their best and dissed for<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>setting the bar too high"<br><br>was published in the _Image_ section of Sunday's _Los Angeles Times_<br>(2 Aug. 2009) and is available online at URL:<br><br><a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-ig-photoshop2-2009aug02,0,3129812.story">http://www.latimes.com/features/lifestyle/la-ig-photoshop2-2009aug02,0,3129812.story</a><br><br>I found the piece by reporter Jeannine Stein especially relevant, as I<br>struggle to finish my new write-up on 17th-century portraiture and<br>problems of representation (e.g., the commercially-successful artist<br>Sir Peter Lely was similarly critiqued by some 17th-century<br>contemporaries for beautifying his female subjects -- especially those<br>trademark "bedroom eyes" which he gave to female and male sitters<br>alike, "So that Mr Walker Ye Painter swore Lilly's Pictures was all<br>Brothers & Sisters").<br><br>The artist's technologies of choice may have changed over the<br>centuries, but most of the issues surrounding human portraiture<br>(aesthetics vs. truth, the politics of flattery and physiognomic art,<br>etc.) are pretty much the same. ;-)<br><br>Deborah<br>_____<br><br>Deborah Taylor-Pearce<br>dtp@she-philosopher.com<br><br><br><br><br><br><br>___________________________________________________________________<br><br>Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: <br> infodesign-cafe@list.informationdesign.org<br><br>To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit:<br> http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe<br><br>For all Information Design matters:<br> http://InformationDesign.org<br><br>Problems? 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