American Photo story (Jill Greenberg)

[tim atherton]

Now if you want manipulative obscene photogrpahs of cxhildren (manipulated probably by both parents and photogrpahers), there is much worse imo - e.g.:

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTUwOTkmbnI9MTQ_3,00.html

 

[John Koehrer]

Now if you want manipulative obscene photogrpahs of cxhildren (manipulated probably by both parents and photogrpahers), there is much worse imo - e.g.:

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTUwOTkmbnI9MTQ_3,00.html

I guess it's a matter of indoctrination isn't it? Do you think the kids are taught that they're superior racially as in pre WWll germany?

 

[tim atherton]

I guess it's a matter of indoctrination isn't it? Do you think the kids are taught that they're superior racially as in pre WWll germany?

No doubt I'll get lynched for this, but another photographer noted the eerie and uncanny similarity here:

http://retiredrambler.typepad.com/tonys_ramblings/images/hitler_youth.jpg

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTUwOTkmbnI9MTQ_3,00.html

(yes, I know there are plenty of infant hezbollah pix out there too, but this is about the uncanny echo and something to do with the visceral power of photographs...)

 

[bjorke]

A lot of the Greenberg brouha came out of flickr and certain people who grandstanded on it to draw hits to their sites.

As ever, the same corporations are more than happy to attract hits using the same attractor:



http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/crying/interesting/

If you think Greenberg is a blowhard based on her comments, fine. But you'd be a fool to think she's not a terrific photographer and a bigger one to think this bit of her work is somehow uniquely inhuman or evil, which it certainly is not. It has been a magnet for little internet demagogues, however.