“IT'S CALLED GOSSIP AND OF COURSE IT'S AN OBSESSION OF MINE" -ANDY WARHOL

Dove's "real beauties" were not airbrushed, but their photos were treated to eliminate dust from the film and provide "color correction," according to Unilever and celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz.

In a joint statement provided by Unilever regarding its "Campaign for Real Beauty," the company, Ms. Leibovitz, who created the ads in question, and the celebrity photo re-toucher she works with -- Pascal Dangin, who kicked off the controversy with a quote he said was taken out of context in an interview with The New Yorker magazine -- all denied substantially altering images in the much-lauded campaign.

-AdAge
May 9 2008