McCain’s going to disappear Jill Greenberg.

9/23/08 Update: Gallery of images here.

Jill Greenberg has got some serious cojones..

I am not a big fan of her work. I mean she’s just not a very talented photographer — in fact, I’d say she’s proof you don’t have to have talent to be a famous “artist”. She has a singular style that defines her and that style is overdone, overplayed, and, quite frankly, unimpressive. She makes kids cry for the sake of art. She takes photos of monkeys and people think its revolutionary. She twists truths and often outright lies for her own benefit.

Just not a fan.

Nevertheless, the manipulation she did to John McCain during a shoot for The Atlantic was nothing but pure guts. I will definitely give her that.

Here is a man who may soon be the most powerful man in the world and she went around and took a photo of him for the cover and purposely left it untouched to show his creepy red eyes and really nasty skin.(1) Then she put him up against a wall and flashed him from below in such a way as to cast a creepy devil shadow on the wall behind him. She, of course, did that in front of McCain’s handlers who she then later said were not very “sophisticated” since they didn’t notice. THEN she goes on to say it was The Atlantic’s own fault for hiring her since she is a well-known Democrat.

I’m not going to post up the photos here because she’s a crazy lawyer-happy woman and I don’t wanna get got by secret service, but if you want to view the photos, you can go to her website: manipulator.com and the McCain photos are mixed in with her animal and baby photos. Just keep hitting refresh until you get a new one.

There were five different McCain photos that I saw…

  1. “I called my wife a c*** in front of reporters.”(2)(3)(4)
  2. “I am a bloodthirsty warmongerer.”
  3. “It was really fun to cheat on my car-injury-disabled first wife.”(5)(6)
  4. Uncaptioned ugly portrait.
  5. Shadow on the background.

Still not a fan of her, but that takes some crazy to do something like that. If McCain gets elected and Greenberg mysteriously gets disappeared–you heard it here first.

Matt

Footnotes:
  1. Normally, that’s not a big deal, but Jill Greenberg is ridiculous with her postprocessing — she retouches photos like of already gorgeous people as if they were hideous. [↩]
  2. Revealed in a book: The Real McCain. [↩]
  3. He also called her a trollop which might not hurt the ears as much but I think is more offensive. [↩]
  4. His reason was that he was having a long day. Which is ok, because presidents never have those… [↩]
  5. Old news but I guess it never really gained much traction. [↩]
  6. And, yes, this is politically relevant considering how much of his platform was based on good Christian values. [↩]