Doctored Magazine Covers

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Doctored Magazine Covers

• Don't always believe what you see when it comes
  to photos.

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• She's a Franken-friend! Jennifer Aniston's
  publicist said that this June 2003 Redbook cover
  was a mash-up of three different photos the
  actress reportedly considered legal action.
  Redbook said it only changed the color of her
  shirt and lengthened her hair.

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• The very next month, Redbook did it again. On the
  magazine's July 2003 cover, Julia Roberts' head
  comes from a paparazzi shot taken at the 2002
  People's Choice awards. Her body, meanwhile, is
  from the "Notting Hill" movie premiere four years
  earlier.

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• The March 7, 2005, issue of Newsweek magazine
  combined Martha Stewart's face with a
  professional model's body to show what she might
  look like when she got out of prison. The
  magazine noted the photo was a fake, but some
  journalists said that the image could have easily
  been mistaken for the real thing.

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• This Star magazine cover trumpets a great scoop
  Brad and Angelina caught together on vacation!
  Only, not so much. The magazine doctored two
  separate ocean-side pictures of each actor.
  Tucked away on page 8 was a disclaimer noting the
  image is a "composite of two photographs."

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Using Photoshop to Alter Images

• As you have seen, it is amazing what photo
  editors can do to photos
• While their intentions sometimes seem harmless,
  they can have a major impact on many people
• Consider the messages these altered photos could
  have

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Evolution

• Dove "Evolution" Video

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Spears Airbrushed Images

• Britney Spears revealed her pre-airbrushed Candy
  campaign photos alongside the digitally enhanced
  images. The singer poses in a pink bathing suit
  for the ad. In the retouched version, her back
  tattoo is gone and her figure is trimmer.

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• Kim Kardashian's always championed her curvy
  figure. Recently, Kardashian fought back against
  photoshop allegations of her March 2009 Complex
  magazine photo spread, saying "So what I have a
  little cellulite. What curvy girl doesn't!?" A
  before shot of Kardashian was featured on
  Complex.com for several hours, before the
  magazine replaced it with a Photoshopped version
  -- which cropped inches off the reality star's
  legs, whittled her waist and brightened her skin.

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• She has graced the cover of hundreds of
  magazines, but that doesn't mean that supermodel
  Kate Moss is always camera-ready. Moss arrived at
  Heathrow Airport Oct. 30, 2008, makeup-less,
  exposing a blotchy complexion and faded sore
  above her lip, pictured left. She debuted a
  completely different and refined look on the
  cover of British Vogue magazine that same month.

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• The June/July issue of Men's Fitness enhanced
  Andy Roddick's bicep muscles so much so that
  Roddick said he stopped in his tracks when he saw
  the cover while walking through the airport. The
  tennis star dubbed the hulking masses "22-inch
  guns" and wrote on his blog, "If you can manage
  to stop laughing at the cover long enough, check
  out the article inside."

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• A January 2003 GQ cover shaved several inches off
  actress Kate Winslet's thighs. Winslet called the
  retouching "excessive." "I can tell you they've
  reduced the size of my legs by about a third,"
  she said about the image.

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Discussion!

• So
• Why should we care about altered images??
• What impacts does this have on males and females
  in our society?

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Activity

• Read the article, How Seventeen Undermines Young
  Women and complete the activity that follows