I was a bit concerned when I saw this recent photo of Sofia Loren. Now I am all for retouching. I would have to be seeing it’s everywhere in my line of work, however now I feel I have to mention that this image is ridiculous she is 75+ for goodness sake. La Simpatica is well beyond her free bus pass age.This looks like a cheesy portrait from one of those dodgy portrait places where you see the free flyers saying “win a makeover and a professional photo session” I have been fortunate enough to actually do the makeup for Ms Loren (the image where she has really red hair and is wearing glasses is from when I did her makeup and shot by the photographer Robert Astley Sparke at an editorial shoot in the house of Mr Armani in Milan in 2006) and I can tell you that in the flesh the legend that she is actually looks her age. Ok, she looks good for her age, really good but she looks her age. This photo is too too much and she looks like a 40 year old. Ms Loren appears even younger than the photo when I worked with her, it is like Benjamin Button.The scary thing is that in the future no one will be able to look back at people and know the actual time frame of their life except from intrusive pap shots by scum bag paparazzi. Retouching is nothing new and I have early images by the great George Hurrell and his Hollywood portrait book showing retouched Joan Crawford and non retouched Joan Crawford from way back in the day, however she still looked human and her age (relatively) as you can see. We are entering frightening and dangerous digitally retouched times which falsify the age and time that we live in. I am all for a bit of fantasy but we need to know that reality still exists. http://www.georgehurrell.net/