[Leica] Jill Greenberg's Distressed Children

[leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)]

On 5 Jul 2006 at 14:20, Tina Manley wrote:

> 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?


VERY questionable technique.  I'm not sure it meets the legal 
standards for child abuse, but it's certainly not something I'd 
willing subject children to if they were in my care.  

And her "artist's statement" is the most incoherent, self-
aggrandizing bunch of CRAP since ... that should go on the forum so I 
won't finish it.  Suffice it that she's entirely comfortable doing 
things that bear a close resemblance to the things she decries others 
for doing.

Oh.  And the final images suck.


YMMV.

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