Jill Greenberg Shoots John McCain
Okay - I admit it. I’m not a fan of Jill Greenberg.
Her easily identifiable lighting sytle in generally unflattering and I think she did cross some lines when she photographed children after making them cry.
She makes a extremely successful living shooting people of note for well known publications.
I personally think she crossed the line with her recent comments about John McCain in PDNPulse:
When The Atlantic called Jill Greenberg, a committed Democrat, to shoot a portrait of John McCain for its October cover, she rubbed her hands with glee.
She delivered the image the magazine asked for—a shot that makes the Republican presidential nominee look heroic. Greenberg is well known for her highly retouched images of bears and crying babies. But she didn’t bother to do much retouching on her McCain images. “I left his eyes red and his skin looking bad,” she says.
Then again, she does call herself the “The Manipulator”.
Did she cross professional boundaries or breach the trust of her client?
September 14th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
Wow! I think she was way out of line on this. She was paid by a client to do a job. It was childish and uncalled for.
September 15th, 2008 at 9:15 am
YES, as much as I am not a fan of McCain i feel that she should have done the best of her ability regardless of her personal feelings/views.
September 16th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Ooohhh that makes me mad! Why wouldn’t the magazine say something before giving it the final ok?!?!? Politics should stay out of a shoot like this where they are paying a photographer.