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Essay / Article by Christine Rosen: The impact of...
In her article, Rosen explains how anyone with a camera and Photoshop has power in today's society. Rosen goes on to say that “the power of the image has been diluted” (355); What Rosen means is that the technologies to modify an image are so inexpensive that anyone can do it. Images have become overly simplistic, anyone with a camera and editing software can produce an image and upload it anywhere or even broadcast it on television. Hymowitz would support Rosen's argument by explaining how these people-produced images destroy both a woman's privacy and identity. Additionally, Hymowitz would talk about how edited images make women disposable. The media may alter these images to make headlines, then discard the image without realizing the damage they have caused. Hymowitz also explains how the media gets "details that only their Brazilian shoe shiners should know" (Hymowitz 235); the media then talk about it in magazines and even on television. Hymowitz argues that it is such overexposure that ruins women's private lives. Rosen would support this argument by saying that the reason women are overexposed is because anyone can produce these images and place them wherever they want. Hymowitz points out that the average member of society has the power to ruin a woman's life.