Here is a fascinating website created by Greg Apodaca, a photographer (and musician) from San Francisco who works as a digital retoucher. This page, which shows images before and after retouching, illustrates how much manipulation can go into images we assume are "candid" or "real." And of course then we have to ask (again) what is "real" when we are looking at a representation, and we also have to think (again) about the ethics of digital manipulation.
Posted by sdelagrange at May 18, 2004 09:39 AM