New Yorker: "Pixel Perfect" - Pascal Dangin

Pascal Dangin has a lot of control. Lauded by so many celebrities and media honchos, you can almost say that so many of the advertisements and media that you look at today, was in fact, done by him. Sure, he might not have created the idea behind the advertisements, but he sure did tweak and alter little things and present them to what us, commoners, see. That's a lot of power.

Lauren Collins' paints a very different picture of Pascal Dangin. There are airbrushers, and then there is Pascal Dangin. Of course, he bloops out the pimples on celebrities, but it seems that he does more than that. What I liked about what was written about him, was how he seemed to see through the superficial aspects of the picture (sort of ironic, I guess), and he could tell what needed to be changed so that it didn't seem -too- perfect. 

It's funny because we always rag on how celebrities look too fake, but at the same time, a photograph is something that you want to look at for some time, and I don't necessarily want to look at scraggly old blue veins. Dangin also knows when to stop, he seems to know when a woman looks too much of something. I never saw touch ups as a form of art, but when you think about it, photographs, advertisements, media is an art in itself and Dangin treats it like one.