{"id":15798,"date":"2009-04-15T10:04:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-15T10:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/04\/questionable-uses-of-photoshop.html"},"modified":"2009-04-15T10:04:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-15T10:04:43","slug":"questionable_uses_of_photoshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/15\/questionable_uses_of_photoshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Questionable uses of Photoshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/video.nytimes.com\/video\/2009\/03\/09\/opinion\/1194838469575\/sex-lies-and-photoshop.html\">Sex, Lies, and Photoshop<\/a>: Jesse Epstein interviews retouchers and talks about, among other things, the French government&#8217;s desire to mandate the disclosure of image manipulation.  [Via Marc Pawliger]  Much <a href=\"http:\/\/theonlinephotographer.typepad.com\/the_online_photographer\/2009\/03\/sex-lies-and-photoshop.html\">related conversation ensues<\/a> on The Online Photographer blog.  This reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut\/Kilgore Trout <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geocities.com\/Hollywood\/4953\/kt_boc2.html#how_you\">story<\/a> in which unrealistic body images pave the way to interplanetary conquest.<\/li>\n<li>The Danish Press Photography Union has excluded photojournalist Klavs Bo Christensen from the judging for this year&#8217;s Press Photo Awards due to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressefotografforbundet.dk\/index.php?id=11374\">excessive post-processing<\/a> (in Danish*; here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/74.125.19.132\/translate_c?hl=en&amp;sl=da&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http:\/\/www.pressefotografforbundet.dk\/index.php?id=11374&amp;prev=hp&amp;usg=ALkJrhi4-UY2DeysuE0JPk_QvH8qvntJJA\">machine-translated version<\/a>.)  Again T.O.P. features <a href=\"http:\/\/theonlinephotographer.typepad.com\/the_online_photographer\/2009\/04\/danish-photojournalist-accused-of-excessive-photoshopping.html\">discussion<\/a>. [Via Zalman Stern] <\/li>\n<li>Government in action:\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/politics\/2008983329_isphoto04.html\">Women in Israeli govt? Not if Photoshop can help<\/a>,&#8221; reports the Seattle Times. [Via Margot Nack]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/article.aspx?newsid=13500\">AP Suspends Use of U.S. Army Photos Over Digital Alteration<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><em>* Does &#8220;r\u00e5filer&#8221; mean &#8220;raw files&#8221;?  If so, cool.  I&#8217;m always a fan of the &#8220;a with the little hat.&#8221;)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sex, Lies, and Photoshop: Jesse Epstein interviews retouchers and talks about, among other things, the French government&#8217;s desire to mandate the disclosure of image manipulation. [Via Marc Pawliger] Much related conversation ensues on The Online Photographer blog. This reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut\/Kilgore Trout story in which unrealistic body images pave the way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}