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'No,' said the child. 'What is it?'
- The Mouse and his Child. Russell Hoban.

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Wednesday 27 August 2014

Concepts of Beauty

A project by Esther Honig.
She took a photo of herself, the first one below, and sent it to professional Photoshoppers around the world.  Her instructions were simple "Make me beautiful".

The results so far:
Go Here

Part two Here is even more interesting.






6 comments:

  1. Interesting, I'll watch where I go for my nose job and tuck.

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  2. Germany, OK.... Bulgaria, strange.... India, laughable.

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  3. Having spent more time than perhaps I would have expected on this post I found the results very interesting indeed with very divergent views (often appearing to be based on regional stereotypes) on what 'beauty' is. I think in Honig's case the main problem for me was that the 'person' in the original photo disappeared in most of the Photoshopped versions.

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  4. A really worthwhile project for these two artists. Concepts of personal female beauty in the USA are a bit challenging, if these photos are representative of the general mindset. Generally, just smoothing out the skin tone achieved the desired goal. Changes in eyebrows were very interesting.

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  5. Yes, interesting project. Although we should remember that the results were personal preferences, as well as, probably, some cultural influence.

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  6. I like the original more

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