Jill Greenberg
Jill Greenberg (born July 1967 in Montreal ) is an American photographer .
Jill Greenberg grew up in a Detroit suburb. After leaving school, she studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence , where she graduated in 1989. She then worked as a freelance photographer in New York , and from 2000 in Los Angeles .
Greenberg has worked both artistically and in the advertising industry. Among other things, she designed the cover of Time magazine and the covers of the Everything Is Wrong and Ambient CDs by Moby .
Her photos and photo series almost exclusively show people and animals, who are usually alone in front of a very artificial and arranged background - often in front of monochrome studio backgrounds. With the advent of digital photography , Greenberg began to subsequently alienate her pictures on the computer . They have mostly been smoothed and the contrast increased, which makes the images appear even more unreal.
End Times photo series
Dubious fame gained Greenberg especially in 2006 through their photo series End Times (German end time ). For the series, she invited around three-year-old children to her studio, where she put them in front of the camera with their torso bared, gave them sweets and then took them away again. She then photographed the reactions of the children, who mostly cried and screamed.
The series of photos sparked major protests among parts of the population. In the guest book on their website, Greenberg was abused and compared to Michael Jackson and Adolf Hitler . The critics accuse her of abusing the children who tortured her for profit. In the meantime, the gallery removed the series of pictures from the network.
Greenberg said in her defense that no child was harmed. It is a characteristic of children to react to small inconveniences with violent gestures and facial expressions that express great pain. However, such inconveniences are everyday occurrences for every child.
Greenberg emphasizes that the photo series was politically motivated. She wanted to express her own impotence in relation to the political and social situation in the USA. The government acts as if the end times were approaching, in which securing the future no longer played a role.
Private
Greenberg is married and has two children. Her daughter Violet is an actress in one of the End Times pictures.
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- ↑ a b Official website of Greenberg's gallery
- ↑ Information on the CD covers
- ↑ a b c Rheinische Post of August 3, 2006
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Greenberg, Jill |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal |