Day: June 28, 2006
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Link to more commentary on Jill Greenberg's "End Times"
Stone Bridge has written a post Jill Greenberg and the boundaries of art, expanding and digressing on a comment that he’d made here. It’s interesting that the apologiae for Greenberg in the comments to Hawk’s original post all resort implicitly to the the romantic cult of the artist as Nietzschean ubermensch. Strange that this (you’d…
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Presuming to judge another artist's ethics can be risky, but here goes…
Presuming to judge another artist’s ethics can be risky, but here goes. Boingboing points to this blog post of Thomas Hawk, photographers’ rights activist, in which he writes on the photography of Jill Greenberg. In specific, her photos of children crying. Seems she admits that she manipulates the children into crying, doing things such as…
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Isis (digital painting)
Isis, oh, Isis, you mystical child, what drives me to you is what drives me insane Isis (Spaghetti Junction Isis) 2006 20 w by 9 in h Digital Painting based on photo by artist/collage copyright J Kearns 2006 Lightbox enlargement The painting is based on a photo first seen in my scary Halloween post used…