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Sunday, February 29, 2004
 

Photo and Photoshop Artistry

From The Times:
Loretta Lux, a 34-year-old German painter turned photographer, has realized that a light touch is sometimes the most effective technique for digital enhancement. With so many choices at her fingertips, she has opted for delicate, minute alterations. Walking through her show of children's portraits at the Yossi Milo Gallery in Chelsea, one continually wonders if the boys and girls in her studies are software simulations, and why and to what degree they might be at the mercy of the artist's hand.

Of course this "art" approach to digital manipulation of images is miles away from the press photographers' approach, where digital editing is discussed in terms of ethics and the journalism audience's expectations. The Times article above makes the point that Lux's artwork draws on the traditions  of portrait photography, which routinely used posed settings and retouching long before digital photogoraphy. On the news side, my favorite historical example is the New York Evening Graphic of the 1920s, a paper that pioneered the "composograph" news illustration, the visual equivalent of a Walter Winchell gossip column -- which was something else the Graphic introduced to the world.


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