Point, Shoot, Retouch and Label? – NYTimes.com

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Point, Shoot, Retouch and Label?

A French politician is creating a small furor with a proposal to require all digitally altered photographs of people used in advertising be labeled as retouched.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/03/fashion/03Boyer.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

VALÉRIE BOYER is 47, a member of the French parliament and a divorced mother of three. She is tall, fashionable and, dare we say it, slim.

But she has also created a small furor here and abroad with her latest proposal: a draft law that would require all digitally altered photographs of people used in advertising be labeled as retouched.