{"id":9394,"date":"2005-12-21T12:20:41","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T17:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2005\/12\/21\/retouch\/"},"modified":"2005-12-21T12:20:41","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T17:20:41","slug":"retouch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/21\/retouch\/","title":{"rendered":"Retouch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demo.fb.se\/e\/girlpower\/retouch\/retouch\/index.html\"><img class='alignright' src='http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/files\/uploads\/retouchsm.jpg' alt='Retouching' \/><\/a>  Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2005\/12\/the_beauty_myth.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a>, a link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/demo.fb.se\/e\/girlpower\/\">Girl Power<\/a> campaign of the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs.     <a href=\"http:\/\/demo.fb.se\/e\/girlpower\/retouch\/retouch\/index.html\">Click here<\/a> and wait for it to load; it&#8217;s a Flash demonstration of how you turn a photo of an (already attractive) young woman into magazine-cover material.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign is supposed to draw attention and criticism to the overly sexualized nature of advertising and the media more generally.  It suffers a bit from the self-undermining impulse of many such campaigns, by itself relying on overly sexual imagery to get attention.  But it&#8217;s nice to help people distinguish media fantasy from reality.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em>  the site was also linked at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/2005\/12\/21\/for-the-girls\/\">Feministe<\/a>, who point to a couple of other examples &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/gapodaca\/digital\/bikini\/index.html\">Greg&#8217;s Digital Archive<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glennferon.com\/portfolio1\/\">Glenn Feron<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Marginal Revolution, a link to the Girl Power campaign of the Swedish Ministry of Health and Social Affairs. Click here and wait for it to load; it&#8217;s a Flash demonstration of how you turn a photo of an (already attractive) young woman into magazine-cover material. The campaign is supposed to draw attention and criticism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}