Airbrushed Nation by Jennifer Nelson

Author:Jennifer Nelson [Nelson, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781580054638
Publisher: Seal Press

GLOSSY FACT

According to a 2011 U.K. study of 2,000 women, the first thing they notice about other women is how fat they are.23

As for Dangin, he’s unabashedly forthcoming in the New Yorker piece, acknowledging retouching is a practice clandestinely performed in the dark recesses of a basement workshop. “The people who complain about retouching are the first to say, ‘Get this thing off my arm,’” he says, though his very occupation seems to be up for moral, ethical, and philosophical debate.

In March 2008, just months before the New Yorker article was published, Dangin tells the reporter he tweaked 144 images for Vogue; 107 advertisements for companies like Estée Lauder, Gucci, and Dior; as well as thirty-six fashion pictures, and the Vogue cover of Drew Barrymore.24 He’s hired by the advertisers, and photographers such as Leibovitz, and is on retainer for about thirty celebrities. Again, we see the controversial nature of the retouch beast even among celebs that are retouched. While celebrities like Kate Winslet complain about botched retouch jobs (excessive slimming on a cover of the 2008 British GQ), other celebrities have professional artist and retoucher Dangin on retainer.

Yet those who sing Dangin’s praises realize he’s not just a graphic artist with a to-die-for retouch program; rather, he has an innate eye, along with the technical dexterity, to see and create possibilities within a photo that even the photographer couldn’t capture. Of course, that doesn’t mean he’s above reproach when it comes to critics who detest a retouch of any type. He admits to spending the majority of his time and effort reshaping an ass, creating a cool dimple, minimizing chubby knees, or wiping away the ropy, veined feet of an over-forty actress in a pair of sexy sandals.25 And therein lies the fantasy.

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