The Politics of the Retouched Headshot

Un-retouched photo of Sarah Palin on the cover of NewsweekThe Atlantic has an interesting post by Virginia Postrel on the politics of portraiture:As Hillary Clinton can attest, a good portrait is not a random selection of what the camera sees, with no subjective input from human observers. A good portrait offers not mechanical objectivity but what the historians of science Lorraine Daston and