†14 November, 2011

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erospainter: “[Women’s magazines]ignore older women or pretend that they don’t exist; magazines try to avoid photographs of older women, and when they feature celebrities who are over sixty, ‘retouching artists’ conspire to ‘help’ beautiful women look more beautiful, ie less than their age…By now readers have no idea what a real woman’s 60 year old face looks like in print because it’s made to look 45. Worse, 60 year old readers look in the mirror and think they are too old, because they’re comparing themselves to some retouched face smiling back at them from a magazine.” ― Dalma Heyn i know everyone knows the photographer here, but just for the record I note that this is a photograph by helmut newton of his wife, june newton, who used the pseudonym alice springs in her photography. after flipping through a few pages from google image, I have decided this is the most credible source

erospainter:

“[Women’s magazines]ignore older women or pretend that they don’t exist; magazines try to avoid photographs of older women, and when they feature celebrities who are over sixty, ‘retouching artists’ conspire to ‘help’ beautiful women look more beautiful, ie less than their age…By now readers have no idea what a real woman’s 60 year old face looks like in print because it’s made to look 45. Worse, 60 year old readers look in the mirror and think they are too old, because they’re comparing themselves to some retouched face smiling back at them from a magazine.”
― Dalma Heyn

i know everyone knows the photographer here, but just for the record I note that this is a photograph by helmut newton of his wife, june newton, who used the pseudonym alice springs in her photography. after flipping through a few pages from google image, I have decided this is the most credible source