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9. GQ and Kate Winslet: the debate today
by Tony Quinn

Kate Winslet described her ’stretching’ for this front cover photograph on GQ as ‘excessive’, but it resulted in great publicity for magazine (Feb 2003):

'With Kate, we were thrilled, said GQ editor Dylan Jones. 'It was a full page in all the tabloids ... And the fourth bong on the News at Ten [referring to the chimes of Big Ben that are interspersed between the headlines of the ITV news programme]'

For some celebrities, digital manipulation is used to alter their public image.

May 2008: slimmed-down Kelly Osbourne on front cover of Independent Extra		Feb 2008: bolshy 'brat' for Fabulous

Kelly Osbourne can change her look to suit promotional purposes - compare the upper arms and shoulders in these two images - and easily make herself different or 'new'

Photo tricks on these pages

1. Digital manipulation of photographs
2. The photograph: proof of the truth
3. Sherlock Holmes away with the fairies
4. The power of photographs
5. Rodchenko's deadly propoganda tricks
6. Capa - the fall of an icon
7. London Life: Touching up photos
8. Nova: Causing a royal fuss in the swinging sixties
9. GQ and Winslet: The debate today
10. Tatler and Eugenie: Look what they did to my heir
11. Slick Economist cover attacked
12. Where is photography going?
13. Sources and Bibliography