From PDNPulse:
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.
When asked what she wanted to do with the picture:
...she goes on to explain that she’s thought about replacing McCain’s mouth with bloody shark teeth and displaying the image on a billboard with the message that the candidate is a bloodthirsty war monger.
To which the internet is more then willing to oblige:
Clayton Cubitt, AKA Siege, had this to say:
Jill Greenberg just made every “celebrity” portrait photographer’s future life more miserable. As if we aren’t leashed tightly enough already. Publicists are already demanding the right to chimp and delete on set. And magazine art directors and editors are not known for the fortitude of their backbones with regards to celebrities, so this will contribute to a situation that’s going to become unworkable real quick.
With all that being said, I find more images of McCain/Palin/Republicans being vilified then I would Obama/Biden/Democrats, is Obama just so untouchable that any joke against him would be deemed racist and tasteless?
Although seriously, Obama Waffles is not funny, and this is not a joke, but a statement from a disgruntled Democrat who likens Obama to a "half-breed muslin".
So now you know, Obama is a finely woven tapestry which may have been made of two different breeds of cotton, knowledge is power!
3 comments:
I'm a photographer, and I while I think the result is interesting, I also think the entire process was unethical. She was obviously tricking her subject, in this instance John McCain, into taking a picture that she could use to get famous. She's going to make it hard for all start-up photographers in the future to get any assignments with celebrities and politicians - just so she can get famous. Tsk tsk...
She has alot of success with heavily photoshopped pictures, like the babies and monkeys collection and advertising, but I doubt what she did will impact jobs of start-up photographers except that now the PR people would demand immediate access to pictures taken and the right of deletion.
But yeah, it certainly wasn't the most ethical of process, the lesson here is to "know your photographer", I guess.
Obama waffles? Endorsed by Fankenstein? I need a waffle maker.
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