Jill Greenberg
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I’ve been a longtime fan of Jill Greenberg’s stunning and subtly manipulated photography for some time. Her incredible talent for accentuating her subject’s true personality, whether they be celebrities or animals, is uncanny. Unfortunately her latest work might find her in the midst of a lawsuit, but for now we can still enjoy these while photos they last. Hired by Atlantic Monthly to do a photoshoot of John McCain, she put her own spin on some of the unused portraits and posted them on her site.
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bradley Thursday 25 September 2008
i’m not a fan of mccain or pretty much any republican for that matter.. but this is totally inappropriate. she was given the opportunity to photograph him, and he probably trust and confided in the fact that she would be objective.. this is a total disregard to any mutual respect she had for her subject.. no kudos! there’s way of showing you’re distaste for a subject than to literally paint him as a vampire
frank Friday 26 September 2008
In one sense its great that she is taking a political stance as an artist but it just seems more like a free publicity stunt for her own exposure gains,, also, as i am a photographer i know she may lose more than she may gain by doing what she did, and if she was so passionate about her distaste for him she would not have agreed to shoot him in the first place.
Shane Saturday 27 September 2008
Michael Moore was said to be inappropriate by showing a biased version of events around the bush government, this was said to stretch the truth and not be fair but do politicians play fair, do they take cheap shots? I say fight fire with fire, I applaud Jill for having the courage to take him on like this, perhaps if more people did this kind of thing Bush would never have gotten elected and the world wouldnt be in the state its in now.
Francisco Sunday 28 September 2008
She had the guts to do this. I admire her for that! The photos are amazing also…