Flipping through magazines, it is easy to accept the pictures as reality. After all, they are right there in front of you. Two students at Dartmouth have made it their mission to bring awareness and emphasize how unrealistic the images in the media can be. They are not trying to go after magazine that alter photos for lighting or resolution purposes, but instead for magazines or newspapers that edit characteristics to make the subject seem more appealing. At first, the UK considered requiring all edited photos to have a disclaimer underneath, but many photos are edited for simple touch-ups and that would be misleading to say they were modified. Farid and Kee have developed software that determines how much a picture has been modified based on original images of that same subject.
Besides the fact that this extreme photo editing is unethical, I agree that editing women’s bodies to make them look flawless will skew our perception of beauty. If the magazines are saying that beauty is a perfect (but edited) body, tan skin and painted over skin with no marks, society will use that as a baseline for beauty. This new “baseline” is so unattainable that people become obsessed with reaching a goal that is nonexistent. Not to mention, it distracts us from noticing true, natural beauty.
Source: Guardian
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