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Atlantic’s Jill Greenberg: McCain’s Trust “Not Very Sophisticated”
Atlantic Pulls a Fast One
“He thought he was being lit by a beauty dish with a modeling light set up. But that wasn’t firing. He had no idea he was being lit from below.”
–Atlantic photographer, Jill Greenberg, on her technique for getting the most unflattering photos of McCain for the magazine’s cover story.
The Atlantic does a cover story on one candidate and the photographer goes to great lengths to portray the candidate in the most unflattering light. The magazine is Atlantic, the candidate?
The answer, to what must be the easiest question in the world for Mainstream Media watchers, is John McCain.
Little Green Footballs minced no words about the episode:
Gerard Vanderleun posts about some quite amazing perfidy from The Atlantic and photographer Jill Greenberg, whose photo shoot with John McCain was deliberately set up to produce ominous, threatening pictures—by using outright trickery: Out-Takes: Behind The Atlantic’s McCain Cover.
Conservative Punk thinks McCain got “Dexterized”.
“Doesn’t it look similar to the technique used on the poster for Showtime’s Dexter?”
All this would be conjecture–but the photographer in question, Jill Greenberg, couldn’t wait to dish on how she pulled a fast one over on the McCain campaign.
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.
That’s taken from “PDN Pulse: How Jill Greenberg Really Feels about John McCain“. As is the following:
After getting that shot, Greenberg asked McCain to “please come over here” for one more set-up before the 15-minute shoot was over. There, she had a beauty dish with a modeling light set up. “That’s what he thought he was being lit by,” Greenberg says. “But that wasn’t firing.”
What was firing was a strobe positioned below him, which cast the horror movie shadows across his face and on the wall right behind him. “He had no idea he was being lit from below,” Greenberg says. And his handlers didn’t seem to notice it either. “I guess they’re not very sophisticated,” she adds.
An admission by a media-type who describes “trust to do one’s job in an objective way” as “not very sophisticated”.
Perhaps that’s been the MSM’s attitude–and excuse–for their biased reporting the last forty years: anyone who “trusts them to do their jobs in an objective way” is just “not very sophisticated”.
A sort of “all’s fair in love, war and MSM reporting” philosophy.
Mark us down as among those who are “not very sophisticated”. Just like John McCain–and a lot of voters.
by Mondoreb
images: consevative punk; pdnpulse
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The photo the Atlantic Monthly used is far better than the one she made for herself, which is the kind of lifeless and characterless photograph a first year photo student at a community college has to do as a lighting exercise.
The Atlantic Magazine’s art director and editor’s choice tells us a lot about what McCain has been through, it’s physical toll on him, and how that experience ( torture as a POW and suffering from malignant skin cancer) has shaped his thinking. By comparison Greenberg’s personal choice tells us nothing about him. It is simply a bad photo.
Why is her personal photo so weak? Weak direction on top of bad lighting. Compare it for example to Arnold Newman’s portrait of Alfred Krupp — http://tinyurl.com/krupp-newman — which was made basically the same way: in the last frames at the end of a longer portrait session, he had Herr Krupp lean slightly forward to get the ominous effect. ( Krupp had greatly increased his family’s fortunes by aligning himself with Hitler and his Nazi cronies and was a big time user of slave labor in his factories.)
Like Greenburg, Newman made his photo as an emotional response to the subject but it is propelled by Newman’s fierce intellect and intelligence while Greenberg’s personal photo is driven by a shallow and snarky cynicism (the same thing that drives the McCain and Palin campaign to repeat the same obviously obviously disprovable lie ( even GOP master strategist Karl Rove says ” “McCain has gone in his ads one step too far, and sort of attributing to Obama things that are, you know, beyond the 100-percent-truth test,” and of course there is Palin’s continually deliberate mis-statements on the the infamous Bridge-to-Nowhere earmarks) repeatedly — they both Greenberg and McCain’s campaign think you are gullible enough to fall for the Big Lies.
Jill Greenburg thrives on generating controversy. The more McCain supporters gin this thing up, the more she’ll thrive.
Was what she did unprofessional? Sure, but not by making the photo she wanted to make, but in the way she has behaved afterwards.
We know about Newman’s manipulations but they weren’t public knowledge for years afterward. If Greenberg wanted her personal photo to be effective she should have just started circulating the photo without the brass ball clanking braggadocio.
But maybe that is the problem with blogs: you have to fill them up with something and you have to draw attention to their existence.
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Giggling moonbats passing themselves off as intelligentsia.
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What Jill Greenberg did was quite unprofessional and serves no purpose other than giving the Republicans another cheap opportunity to cry foul.
On the other hand, it’s refreshing to see the sinister ugliness of John McCain’s politics and campaign portrayed so accurately in these portraits.
John McCain is one of the biggest frauds in the history of American politics, a fake maverick who long ago sold out his values to the “agents of intolerance” he so famously called out in 2000 while running against another ruthless schemer.
May sanity prevail this time.
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Chris, You are as dumb as she is. You have swallowed the lefts fanatic venom spewing crap. Find a happy medium and realize neither side is even close to being perfect. Jill Greenberg is a militant left wing zealot. All she has done is push more people sitting on the fence to veer away from Obama.
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Здравствуйте. Я тут новичок, извините сразу, если пишу глупость, но скажите, как мне залить фотографию. Не могу понять, хочу вставить фотку смешную с котом, но она не отображается. Модераторы, сделайте, пожалуйста фотку, пускай народ с форума заценит котика. i039.radikal.ru/0806/6d/b5d065e5a938.jpg
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