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Ad Spoof Exposes Fashion Magazines’ Not-So-Secret Secret

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Last month, Techcitement’s Daniela Weiss-Bronstein wrote a detailed article about the problem of excessive use of Photoshop in fashion advertising. Because people buy the unrealistic image of unhealthily thin women, this problem isn’t going away any time soon. So, what do we do now? Well, if you’re filmmaker and commercial director Jesse Rosten, you make […]

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New Ratings System Makes Faces Red Over Altered Body Images

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There is a long and ugly history of society dictating to women what our bodies should look like. In ancient Greece, women were supposed to be lithe and muscular with small breasts. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, fuller bodies were considered ideal, as captured by Rubens. Ads from the past century in America showed an aversion to […]

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