Photoshop Is Evil Dumenco Summary

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“It’s no wonder that millions of us are so eager to use a service that promises to “filter” reality-whatever reality is”, said by Simon Dumenco in his article named “Instagram Is OK, But Photoshop Is Evil? The Truth About Digital Lies”. He presented an example about Britain's Advertising Standards Authority banned L'Oréal print ads starring Christy Turlington and Julia Roberts for being "overly airbrushed." He think that Makeup Company deserves condemnation because they use Photoshop to make a slender model thinner. Then Simon brought up an interesting metaphor between cameras and models. To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone

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