“Photographs, which fiddle with the scale of the world, themselves get reduced, blown up, cropped, retouched, doctored, tricked out”

I chose this quote from Susan Sontag’s excerpt On Photography, specifically because of the fact that our world today has become so self conscious about the photos that we post, that it is becoming hard to tell what photo is real and authentic. We’ve become so self conscious of what we post that we manipulate our images to hide what we think is our imperfections to showcase a “perfect photo.” Photographs can be altered in ways that we change our appearance such as our skin complexion, hair color, eye color and even our body shape. For example: Nowadays, even magazine covers cease to reveal original photos of celebrities, but instead they showcase unrealistic photos after a lot of retouching in photoshop. To demonstrate, the picture on the left shows the original photo of myself, whereas the photo on the right shows the altered version which I changed my hair color, eye color and skin complexion.