Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/18

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Subject: [Leica] French to legislate image retouching
From: imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser)
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:50:02 -0500
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Actually Jayanand
as an art student and activist
in the 1960's U.S.
the young women
in my circles
presented themselves
pretty "au naturel"

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george at imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com
http://www.imagist.com/blog
http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist

On Mar 18, 2009, at 8:13 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> George,
> I agree with your last paragraph, but I bet you were not like this at
> 18. I wasn't. It takes time and experience to learn these things.
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:08 AM, George Lottermoser  
> <imagist3 at mac.com> wrote:
>> I'm with you on this Chris.
>> I've spent too much of my life in the ad bus;
>> and glad to be winding it down.
>> I've not worked (much) in the fashion end of the business;
>> but the effect of these retouched dolls on our societies
>> and specifically on our young women's self esteem and self image
>> is a damn shame and very real.
>>
>> Ann's daughter is a beautiful 22 year old
>> and I watch her (and her mother)
>> watching this crap and doing daily battle
>> to achieve these impossible looks.
>>
>> They often don't even believe me
>> when I point out that scenes in movies
>> are made with body doubles and frame by frame retouching.
>>
>> I'd love to see the whole industry collapse;
>> makeup, surgeries, botox - all of it.
>>
>> It's one thing to stay healthy and fit;
>> quite another when you feel forced to
>> paint, starve, cut and paste to compete
>> in a world of illusions.
>>
>> I find women most beautiful
>> when they're feel perfectly comfortable with themselves
>> and the least makeup is applied.


In reply to: Message from chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich) ([Leica] French to legislate image retouching)
Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] French to legislate image retouching)
Message from chs2018 at med.cornell.edu (Chris Saganich) ([Leica] French to legislate image retouching)
Message from imagist3 at mac.com (George Lottermoser) ([Leica] French to legislate image retouching)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] French to legislate image retouching)