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[madcowmartini]

photographer Jill Greenberg beautifully captures photos of children crying

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[southdakota1986]

I like them. But I wonder how she got them to cry. I understand she wouldn't have slapped them or anything, but I wonder what did the trick.

[madcowmartini]

she gave them a lollipop and then took it away, then took their photo

[southdakota1986]

I'm not allowed to laugh, am I? ;)

[southdakota1986]

oh and knowing this I already hate the first kid for being so hysterical over a lollipop.

[darkdisney]

I've done a LOT worse to my younger brother.

[madcowmartini]

well you should have had excellent lighting and a really expensive camera handy so that you could have taken a nice photo of it ;)

[ladder7_photos]

If it is getting people to talk about it like that and consider their own feelings, thoughts and beliefs then I would say it is certainly art :)

[madcowmartini]

well thats one way to look at it, the whole "if it envokes a response, then it's art" philosophy. i agree to a certain extent. i think the fact that they are such well executed photos make them art first and foremost, regardless of the subject matter. i'm pretty pre-post-modern in my beliefs though.

[dercloxboy]

It's art, no doubt about it in my mind. Those photos are amazing, beautiful even. Does the work have to be "right" to be art? I don't believe so. I wouldn't have the guts to do that to a child, let alone my own. She captured her own abuse, those are manufactured emotions. I think the way she acquired those shots was unethical.

[madcowmartini]

i agree that her methods could be considered unethical by some, but then you get in that whole slippery slope of what your ethics are, let alone what art is, and i'm not sure that that belongs in an art discussion in the first place.

then again, i'm assuming that the parents of the children gave their consent for them to be photographed in such a way, so to me all the getting offended starts to seem like righteous indignation.

[dercloxboy]

I think ethics are pertinent to many art discussions and can be applied to this one. As it stands, I think it's unethical for the said artist to -make- children cry for her photos and yes, I think it's wrong via my own righteous beliefs. Regardless if the parents agreed, she's the one who made them cry and she took the photos.

[madcowmartini]

i agree, i think that dude is just the type of person that gets offended easily. theres always someone...