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Feb 8, 2010 12:00 AM
By Ann Glass - FF/S
Choices, choices! With our ever expanding digital knowledge, we can change the face of mankind-literally. Back in the 1940’s and 1950’s people didn’t realize tobacco was bad for one’s health. And there are several classic photos of well-known illustrators and authors smoking cigarettes from those decades. The question that publishers have now is whether to publish a photo as it really was or Photoshop the cigarette out.
Personally I would leave history as it is and use it to remind ourselves that as knowledge grows, so certain habits should change. But some publishers decided to take the cigarettes and smoke out of the picture. So if you buy a new copy of Goodnight, Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and there is a picture of illustrator Clement Hurd on the jacket, he probably won’t be smoking - but really he was!
Personally I would leave history as it is and use it to remind ourselves that as knowledge grows, so certain habits should change. But some publishers decided to take the cigarettes and smoke out of the picture. So if you buy a new copy of Goodnight, Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and there is a picture of illustrator Clement Hurd on the jacket, he probably won’t be smoking - but really he was!
