Models show off their natural beauty, no Photoshop necessary

These photos are really striking. I especially like the one of Amber Valletta.

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someone with some sense in him. I agree with Mr. Lindbergh. I think the women in the pictures look gorgeous, even without the wonders of technology.  If the rest of the fashion industry could learn from this now...

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"They look better just rolling out of bed than 99.9 percent of us would look after working for hours of work with an army of beauty consultants."

I beg to differ!!  There are many, many beautiful people out there who look just as good as these models when they roll out of bed. 

Great, interesting article other than that.

I also find it refreshing that they chose these particular women despite the fact that (or maybe even more so) a majority of them  are nearing 40 or over the age 40.  It's a powerful statement to make in our overly botoxed, surgery happy society that thinks aging is a bad thing. These women look amazing.

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I Love the idea that someone is showing these women in their true beauty, but I feel like doing the photo's in black and white is a bit of a cheat.  Black and white helps hide flaws and inperfections.  But still at least it is a step forward.  Although.. those of us normal folk have always been able to look at the beautiful women in the magazines and go oh ya right I could look that good with photo shop too.. but now we can only look at them and think.. damn people that perfect do exist.

is so beautiful.

Let's get one thing straight, I'm not.

McMenamy looks plain scary to me.

But all the other women look good. The only retouching that should be used in general is maybe giving healthy skintones and removing pimples. who needs slimming down etc? real women are beautiful, not these plastic wannabe-clones that don't exist...

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I'm glad this involved one of the biggest super models out there, that in its own is a powerful message.

great collection, wonder who he'll involve in this next?!

i love the concept, some looked pretty but a few of them looked a mess!

They look stunning! I like what Lindbergh has to say. He's right. The way women are promoted in ads and magazines and whatnot, it's as if they are trying to say,"Be talll, be sleek, but also have huge tits (sometimes), look as unhuman as you can be!"

"I ate the mythology and dreamt."

---Yusef Komunyakaa

See, I think it's wonderful that a lack of photoshop is new and exciting and fresh for the industry, but consider that every, single one of these women is gorgeous. Naturally. What about the women who don't photograph perfectly? Would he be given as much credit? Sure, no photoshop, but insanely gorgeous models...at least by our society's standards. They still seem to be part of a "cult of perfection", just without retouching. 

Unfortunately, if one of us doesn't think one of these models gorgeous enough, we're quick to point it out. Sure, we're attracted to women, and have physical "standards" that need to be met in order to find someone beautiful or attractive, but the part that makes me so sad is that we even have to cut down these extraordinarily beautiful women. What about the rest of us?

Finally models without make-up. It makes for a refreshing change and it's nice to see natural beauty for once.

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this is really what I'd like to see more of. I think it's all well and good to put normal looing people on womans health mags, but teens won't give a damn. If we get amazing looking people (I am thinking of you Shalom!!!!!!!) or famous people, and make them look 'normal' poeple will care. And I say teen because I know so many with warped fahion ideas, and I blame the media. 'OMG what HAPPENED to her' isn't what the mags should say when someone famous doesn't wear make-up, it should be 'see, they still look FINE.' Same with weight and hair colour and all those other petty things.

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Interesting looking Indian women; snaps taken by one of India's leading fashion photographers;

http://www.prabuddhadasgupta.com/personal/women.html

Amber Valetta, Helena Christensen..fabulous, I couldn´t imagine anything more beautiful. 

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The stark B&W non-photoshopped look actually lets you see their vulnerability, which is what is beautiful and appealing to me in these shots. For me beauty is about this rawness. Not just models, but everyone hides their true self from the world - only when someone is really intimate with you, do they let you see an unguarded self, which is what I see here.

Otherwise we typically see models looking like perfect clothes horses and the temptation is to dwell on features/ hair color/ figure that you like. But these shots just transcend that level totally.