Evil Photos of John McCain by Jill Greenberg for Atlantic Monthly
Any photographer taking pictures of presidential candidate John McCain, especially for the cover of a magazine, would have to be experts at photoshop to touchup all the wrinkles, liver spots and general oldness that would be exposed by the lighting.
Not so for photographer Jill Greenberg, who in her cover shoot for the Atlantic Monthly went the opposite direction and used lighting and positioning to create a truly evil looking portfolio of portraits of Senator John McCain, one of which appeared on Atlantic Monthly’s cover…
The problem wasn’t simply that Jill Greenberg delivered a saggy, wrinkly photo of McCain for the liberal rag’s cover, she has even bragged about it to PDNPulse, a professional photography journal :
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When The Atlantic called Jill Greenberg, a committed Democrat, to shoot a portrait of John McCain for its October cover, she rubbed her hands with glee…..
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. |
Let’s face it, McCain isn’t exactly the most attractive candidate and considering the camera tricks Fox News and other conservative media outlets have been using to make Barack Obama look discolored and darker skinned than he actually is, it’s only fair game that the pale, wrinkly, saggy Senator from Arizona was given similar treatment.
American Digest, however, doesn’t see the camera tricks as very funny and even refers to them as political pornography, whatever the hell that is, because some of the images from the session leaked out and were modified by photoshoppers into a ghastly view of the geritol popping Senator :
| But there seems to have been a “leakage” of some images between Jill Greenberg and her clients at the Atlantic. How intentional this is, how much the staff of The Atlantic colluded or did not collude with Ms Greenberg I have no way of knowing just yet. But at this moment Ms. Greenberg is displaying on her website (Hit refresh to cause the page to cycle) the following images which can only be based on out takes from the Senator McCain / Atlantic Monthly photo session [UPDATEWas it something I said? Greenberg has now removed the images below from rotation on her home page. The images below were there as of midnight, PST, Sept 14. The images are, as of now still visible via manipulator > enter > names > john mccain. UPDATE to Update: Those images are back at manipulator.com’s home page. Look like Greenberg decided to double down and brazen it out.] |
At least the American Digest was kind enough to grab the afformentioned images from Greenberg’s site and put them up on their own article. Here’s just a few (if you want to see the rest you’ll have to visit political pornography) :
What do you think about these John McCain evil pictures by Jill Greenberg for Atlantic Monthly ?
Well this is the same guy that sings “Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, bomb Iran” , isn’t it?
Bottom of his class,crashed 5 jets, knows how to win wars? Did we win his war?
Keating 5 scandal.
take the gloves off and expose this guy .