The Economist's Intelligent life magazine features award winning and talented actress on the cover of their latest edition. But this is no ordinary cover, this is a cover with an agenda against Photoshop! Cate looks absolutely stunning and real in this shot with her wrinkles and gracefully aging face depicted without being airbrushed.
The magazine's Editor Tim Lisle commented on the new cover:
"When other magazines photograph actresses, they routinely end up running heavily Photoshopped images, with every last wrinkle expunged. Their skin is rendered so improbably smooth that, with the biggest stars, you wonder why the photographer didn’t just do a shoot with their waxwork.
It’s a supreme example of having it both ways. Publishers want a recognizable person on the cover, with a real career; but they also want an empty vessel—for clothes and jewellery and make-up, which often seem to be supplied by the advertisers with the most muscle. (One cover shoot we spotted this week even had a credit for a fragrance. You would hope that the readers smelt a rat.) The actresses end up playing two conflicting roles: both modern women and throwbacks, both something to aspire to and something to negate.
Cate Blanchett, by contrast, appears on our cover in her working clothes, with the odd line on her face and faint bags under her eyes. She looks like what she is—a woman of 42, spending her days in an office, her evenings on stage and the rest of her time looking after three young children"
SOURCE: THE ECONOMIST
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