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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