Wednesday, November 04, 2009

Sarah Murdoch

My article on Sarah Murdoch in this month's Australian Women's Weekly is causing lots of comment. Sarah told me she'd like to go un-Photoshopped and the resultant cover - smile lines and all - is getting mostly positive, sometimes ecstatic, mail from readers. A few comments along the lines of 'she's young and rich and beautiful anyway so what's the fuss?' have lobbed onto the Weekly's website but generally people are relieved that one magazine has taken a stand against the plastication of beauty. I call it Death by Photoshop - the digital technicians seem hell bent on erasing a subject's whole personality and individuality along with the wrinkles and 'flaws'. It is a kind of death. And it makes the photographers lazy. No one, it seems, knows how to light anymore.

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