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Airbrushing school photos.

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Sharron

Sharron Report 21 Oct 2015 12:03

On the local news this morning there was a story about a woman who is complaining very strongly about the company who has taken the school photographs from her daughter's school.

Apparently the company provides an air brushing service that will remove spots, scratches, acne, dinner down the jumper type marks from the photographs and she was burbling on about body conciousness or some such thing and that little girls have images projected at them. All the usual stuff.

Your nan has your school photo out for the rest of her life. When you are thirty, you really don't need to see a face you once had that was full of zits and blackheads and a bit of dinner down your front as well.

I always managed to have a big pustulent pimple visible for my ID photos which I was always aware of.

Family snapshots are the ones where you need to look like you.

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 21 Oct 2015 12:52

Was in the new last week!

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We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 21 Oct 2015 18:12

Think there have been several articles of a similar nature.

All the mother needs to do is say No. Why is she making such a fussy? The (often) cheeky grin will draw the doting grand/parents eyes, not the custard splodge on the frayed jumper.

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Sharron

Sharron Report 21 Oct 2015 18:29

I think school photographs are formal portraiture, like paintings, and are supposed to be as perfect as possible.

Portrait painters traditionally showed their clients in the very best light for posterity.