![]() ![]() ![]() We draw on the psychological literature to outline current understandings of the relationship between images of ideal (particularly thin) bodies on body image and the ideal body to which we aspire. The proliferation of altered images is such that it is now standard for print and on-line images to be altered in some way: from relatively minor retouching (whitening teeth and eyes, smoothing wrinkles, and erasing blemishes) to more dramatic modification (elongating limbs and slimming waists, thighs and arms). In this paper we consider the impact of digitally altered images on individuals’ body satisfaction and beauty aspirations. Given this, it is not surprising that simply increasing knowledge, or providing information, will be insufficient to challenge them. We conclude that beauty ideals are deeply embedded in our aspirations, practices, and in our constructions of ourselves. We draw on our respective disciplines to offer psychological and philosophical accounts for why this might be. We seek to understand this phenomenon of our continued aspiration for beauty ideals we know to be unreal and even impossible. However, contrary to expectations, such initiatives may not be effective, especially in the long-term, and may even be counter-productive. Such interventions are intended to address the negative consequences of unrealistic beauty ideals. Drawing on current psychological literature we consider interventions designed to increase knowledge about the ubiquity and unreality of digital images and, in the form of labelling, provide information to the consumer. Repeated 05 October 1981, 30 December 1981, 30 August 1982, 25 February 1985.In this paper we consider the impact of digitally altered images on individuals’ body satisfaction and beauty aspirations. A Day's Wait / Idols / Midnight / Jeepsterģ.Beckoning Strings / Legionnaire (Instrumental) / Insects / Dead Pop StarsĢ.Three sessions, none commercially released.ġ.It has to be said that the majority of his listeners failed to share his adulation of the band, which was almost entirely due to his crush on Grogan, as he admitted ( ). They also featured on the 1981 Christmas edition of Top of the Pops. ![]() 'Dead Pop Stars' was one of the selections chosen for the Peelenium of 1981. He would give this an airing every so often. Peel famously contributed backing vocals and whistling to the group's cover of the Neil Diamond tune 'Song Sung Blue', issued on their second album, 'Pinky Blue' (1982). The group would record a further two sessions for the John Peel show. Despite missing their early performance at the event, the DJ seems to have been impressed enough by the highly positive reaction to their set by those who did see it to invite the outfit to record a session for his programme, an offer that was subsequently taken up the following month. The band first caught the attention of Peel at the Futurama 2 festival in Leeds in September 1980. Since the early 2000s, Grogan has periodically played live under the Altered Images name on the Eighties nostalgia circuit. This was soon smoothed into a more mainstream pop sound that brought them 6 Top 40 hit singles, 3 of which made the top 10. Their early style was spiky, reminiscent at times of Siouxsie & The Banshees, whom the group had supported on tour in 1980. They were active from 1979-83, during which time the group issued three albums: 'Happy Birthday' (1981), 'Pinky Blue' (1982) and 'Bite' (1983). They started to dislike them for the very things which they'd previously liked them for, like the fact that they were bright and a bit daft and colourful and leapt about and stuff, and suddenly these things became terribly uncool, whereas a week or so beforehand they'd been cool." ( )Īltered Images were a Scottish indie band from Glasgow fronted by Clare Grogan. I'll never understand how this process works, but it does go on all the time. When they first appeared, people said, 'It's like a Scottish Siouxsie & The Banshees', except they were light where the Banshees were dark, really, and got lighter and eventually got darker.people did like 'em when they first came along, had a couple of hit records, and suddenly everybody turned on them, as they do, in a strange way. "Hard to imagine a band less fashionable than Altered Images. ![]()
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