Catégorie : Photo
Non pas de retouche photo!
Cinéma mashup
H&M Under Fire for Using Fake, Computer-Generated Models
Recently, Swedish fashion chain H&M admitted to using computer-generated models to showcase a range of collections on its website. The virtual models look completely human, but if you look closely, they all have the same body shape and pose. The real model’s head has been superimposed on the body and the skin tone has been digitally altered to match her complexion.
Swedish website Aftonbladet first noticed the uncanny similarities of the models. Hacan Andersson, a spokesman from H&M, confirmed this by saying:
“It’s not a real body, it is completely virtual and made by the computer. We take pictures of the clothes on a doll that stands in the shop, and then create the human apperance with a program on a computer.”
This method has created some controversy among netizens who have criticized H&M for creating a false reality for its customers and creating an unrealistic body image for women to live up to.
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Andersson argued that the choice was made because it simplified the process of the photoshoot and also that customers can focus on the clothes rather than the models. He explained, “The result is strange to look at, but the message is clear: buy our clothes, not our models.”
This article originally published at PSFK here.
Shoot now, focus later
La photo va changer. Ou plutôt les habitude de prise de vue. Lytro
Devastation
Si les images n’étaient pas en couleurs, elles se confondraient avec d’autres du Japon dévasté pendant les seconde guerre… Japan – Vast Devastation – The Big Picture – Boston.com
Created Equal
Un beau livre, de belles photos, de belles idées…
In America, the chasm between rich and poor is growing, the clash between conservatives and liberals is strengthening, and evil and good seem more polarized than ever before. At the heart of this collection of diptychs is my desire to remind us that we are all equal, until our environment, circumstances or fate molded and weathered us into whom we have become.” ~ Mark Laita
Completed over the course of eight years, Created Equal captures the poignant polarity of contemporary culture.
Created Equal: Parallel Portraits of Cultural Difference | Brain Pickings
l’architecture de la densitée
Des photos étourdissante de Michael Wolf présentées dans le cadre du prix Pictet… (no photoshop)
One of the most densely populated metropolitan areas in the world, Hong Kong has an overall density of nearly 6,700 people per square kilometer. The majority of its citizens live in flats in high-rise buildings, whoses units can house as many as 10,000 people. In Architecture of Density, I investigates these enormous city blocks, finding a mesmerizing abstraction in the buildings’ facades. The structures in the series are photographed without reference to the context of sky or ground, and many buildings are seen in a state of repair or construction: their walls covered with a grid of scaffolding or the soft colored curtains that protect the streets below from falling debris. From a distance, such elements become a part of an intricate design. Upon closer inspection of each photograph, the anonymous public face of the city is full of rewarding detail – public space is private space, large swatches of color give way to smaller pieces of people’s lives. The trappings of the people are still visible here: their days inform the detail of these buildings. Bits of laundry and hanging plants pepper the tiny rectangles of windows- the only irregularities in this orderly design. The images of Architecture of Density give one an inkling of what our cities could look like if grown continues unchecked.
retouchées? naaaaaaan…
TED Prize 2011 : JR
TED Prize : Wishes Big Enough to Change the World » Congratulations to the 2011 TED Prize Winner: JR Congratulations to the 2011 TED Prize Winner: JR JR exhibits his photographs in the biggest art gallery on the planet. His work is presented freely in the streets of the world, catching the attention of people who are not museum visitors. His work mixes Art and Action; it talks about commitment, freedom, identity and limit.