Artist's Controversial Photos Show Real McCain: Warmonger, Lecher

Posted by Nina Berman, AlterNet at 3:45 AM on September 18, 2008.

Jill Greenberg, a Los Angeles studio photographer known for her slick monkeys and bears, got a chance to shoot John McCain for the Jeffrey Goldberg Atlantic Cover (pictured on the right).

Following the cover shoot, Ms. Greenberg decided to take a few shots for herself. McCain’s handlers were not savvy enough to realize that you should never allow your candidate to be shot and lit from below; it distorts the face kind of like a horror movie monster.

As you can see in the photo:



Ms. Greenberg had some more fun in post production, doctoring McCain to create some pretty unflattering images (catch them after the flip):

Now she’s feeling the heat here and here.

Was it immoral and unprofessional for her to make unflattering pictures? Or was it her right to create images as political commentary about a man who has no qualms broadcasting mendacious advertisements and then defending them as truth?

What do you think, readers?

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