[Leica] Jill Greenberg's Distressed Children

[kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)]

On Jul 5, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Tina Manley wrote:

> LUG:
>
> There is a fierce debate going on over on PhotoPro about this  
> photographer's work:
> http://www.paulkopeikingallery.com/artists/greenberg/exhibitions/ 
> endtimes/index.htm
>
> She deliberately provokes children in order to photograph them with  
> distressed expressions.  What is the LUG's opinion?  Of the  
> photography and of the methods used?

really now, what's to debate ?  It's is a group of set-up and  
deliberately provocative images...

It results from a conspiracy between unscrupulous and ambitious  
parents and an unscrupulous and ambitious photographer...


the photography is so/so, but in this setting, who cares...?

Steve

Here is one opinion and some rebuttal
> http://thomashawk.com/2006/04/jill-greenberg-is-sick-woman-who.html
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> Tina
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