The Retouched Portrait
In 2019, photographer Lindsay Adler gave a TED Talk in New York where she showed two versions of the same portrait. The first had been...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 2 Corinthians 3:12-4:2.
In 2019, photographer Lindsay Adler gave a TED Talk in New York where she showed two versions of the same portrait. The first had been run through professional retouching software — skin smoothed to porcelain, every pore erased, jawline sculpted, eyes brightened to an almost supernatural gleam. The audience nodded approvingly. Then she showed the original. The woman in the unretouched photo had laugh lines, a slight asymmetry to her smile, a small scar near her chin.…
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