Digitally remastered

The upcoming New Yorker has a feature on a fellow named Pascal Dangin, apparently "the premier retoucher of fashion photographs." The piece is long on the details of his technical gifts and digital toolbox - admittedly compelling stuff - and short on the politics of manipulating bodies for media consumption.
Not unfairly so, of course (it's still good writing) but the lack of explicit mention of retouching's consequences doesn't make the industry sound any less depressing. By far the worst revelation:

"I mentioned the Dove ad campaign that proudly featured lumpier-than-usual “real women” in their undergarments. It turned out that it was a Dangin job. “Do you know how much retouching was on that?” he asked."