Cropped Image: It seems like a normal pretty woman posing and having her picture taken.
Original Image: Except, it is actually a picture of a woman suffering from Anorexia Nervosa, an eating disorder.
The awful truth about photographs is they can be altered, changed in any form, making the viewer believe its real when it actually isn't. According to Practices of Looking, "Photographs are objective renderings of the real world that provide unbiased truth" (Sturken 17). What that means is you can't always trust the pictures, ads, billboards you see to be truthful. Photos can be altered or distorted with color, brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, and many others. For example, O.J. Simpson when he was convicted of murder the magazines contrasted and darken his color skin to emphasize evil and guilt. Photos can be cropped as well, the cropped image on top seems to be a normal picture of a woman, but when you look at the original image you see the woman has Anorexia Nervosa, an eating disorder, that is why you can't always trust what you see.
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