Sunday, March 04, 2007
Photoshop Jiggery Pokery
As part of a project I am creating a series of images that will hopefuly make viewers call into question the ethics of digital image manipulation. I expect there will be five or six images in total. This is the first and hopefuly brings to focus the extent to which some beauty and pharmaceutical companies will twist the truth to sell you their "age-reversing" products. The youthfull face is that of my younger brother and the elder face is that of my Grandfather on my fathers side. The genetics are pretty uncanny it's almost creepy.
Labels: digital image, ethics, manipulation, photoshop, project
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Very nice photomanipulation. I've done a few like this, and I have to say that I am in complete agreement about the ethical situation presented to the artistic community today. There are lots of times when people will attempt to pass off an edited or askew photograph nowadays as themselves. Go check out a large portion of MySpace if you feel you need an example, but I am pretty certain you would agree. This same concept has been plaguing the media for years, though. It's just getting to the point that now we are upon the precipice of the experience: go too much further, and we fall into a moral dilemma, step too far back, and the society disdains our mediocre attempts at reality. So where do we draw the line at blending reality with perfection? Photomanipulation could, in theory, be looked at just as another form of makeup. The only question is whether or not a nonsubstantive form of makeup "counts" as substantive when you cannot physically walk around wearing it. We let it exist in our favorite films (300 for example, is more computer animation than live action).
To be continued . . .
- mk