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kali921

Vanity Fair's Chromatophobia.

Feb 20, 2009 12:51

Oooooh, Vanity Fair, why, why, why?

Vanity Fair whitewashes actress Freida Pinto.

From the article:

"Somebody needs to tell Vanity Fair that brown is the new black. Despite the extraordinary success of the Oscar-nominated flick Slumdog Millionaire, the magazine took the liberty of minimizing the ethnic appearance of leading lady Freida Pinto... ( Read more... )

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lurkerwithout February 20 2009, 22:22:25 UTC

Freida looks like she's made out of plastic white-washed. Thats not right...

descant February 20 2009, 22:32:42 UTC

This.

Vanity Fair is a great publication but sadly still succumbs to Photoshop pitfalls like this one.

kali921 February 21 2009, 01:52:20 UTC

VF is SUCH a weird collection of things. They do what in other magazines would be called puff pieces, but in VF they wind up being fifty thousand words long. They do crime journalism and often VERY good investigative reporting, but you turn the page and there's a fawning piece on Carla Bruni with Photoshopped-to-within-an-inch-of-their-lives photos, but you turn the page AGAIN and there's a rather incisive analysis of Bruni's love life. Then you throw in the odd piece from Christopher Hitchens AND Georg Wayne asking Billie Jean King about oral sex, and...cognitive whiplash.

avariel_wings February 21 2009, 00:15:45 UTC

Exactly! They've turned a really pretty girl into a Barbie doll.

kali921 February 21 2009, 01:47:21 UTC

That photo is also oddly stiff; it looks like a rush job. The clothes don't really work with the color wash of the lighting, her pose looks very forced, and a whole host of other things that don't appeal. I get that they're sort of going for forties glamor here, in which case, why not go ALL OUT and at least do a decent set and props?

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