Unfortunately the widespread availability of technology does not offset the lack of great (not just good) digital artists & photographers these days. Half-baked, mediocre jobs like Angelika's and most spreads you see on stabds are attributed to amateurs who claim more than what they know about the technology and the entire process. These days you just grab a tool from the toolbox and push and pull a batch of pixels and presto you think you're a genius. Compare that to those days when most of the process happens during the scanning stage of the hi-res image. Digital retouching was done minimally on proprietary hardware and software like Scitex and SGI systems to resize or remove a mole and scratches. If ever heavy retouching was required then a meticulous pixel by pixel manipulation was done to it preserving most of the image characteristics. It's a job for a real craftsman no less.

I agree today we have a distorted view of what beautiful should look like. Thanks to those in the media who exploit these young girls as well as the gullible minds of the majority of people for money. However at the end of the day we seek authenticity even among the heavily painted celebrities we admire as beautiful. It's those untouched candid shots of people we know which speak volumes that interest us the most. An untouched photography of a person is risky to begin with, but we are sometimes rewarded for that risk by great successes such as uncovering the unknown surprises that make her and her life so interesting.