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Subject: [Leica] Jill Greenberg's Distressed Children
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed Jul 5 14:59:47 2006
References: <7.0.1.0.2.20060705141614.06cac798@infoave.net> <p06230922c0d1d5e12c15@[10.0.1.3]>

On Jul 5, 2006, at 1:52 PM, Henning Wulff wrote:

> At 2:20 PM -0400 7/5/06, 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?
>>
>> Here is one opinion and some rebuttal
>> http://thomashawk.com/2006/04/jill-greenberg-is-sick-woman-who.html
>>
>> Tina
>
> The apparent method for getting these reactions is by giving them a  
> lollipop and and then taking it away.
>
> If we see an older sibling doing that to a younger one, we scold  
> them and tell them not to be mean.
>
> For an adult to do this for their own purposes, and for the parents  
> to be party to this is disgusting. Manipulation of children to  
> create any kind of pain by adults they should be able to trust is a  
> vast abuse of that trust.


what is amazing is that the parents are selling their children into  
this plot...

how sick....I wonder how much they are getting paid, and what else  
they may be getting from this...

bunch of sickos, and what about the buyers?

Steve


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In reply to: Message from images at InfoAve.Net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Jill Greenberg's Distressed Children)
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