Jill Greenberg's Bizzare McCain Photo

[bigtree]

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.

She delivered the image the magazine asked for—a shot that makes the Republican presidential nominee look heroic. Greenberg is well known for her highly retouched images of bears and crying babies. But she didn’t bother to do much retouching on her McCain images. “I left his eyes red and his skin looking bad,” she says.

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.

The Atlantic didn’t select the diabolical looking McCain for its cover. Greenberg is hoping to license that image to some other magazine (she negotiated a two-week embargo with The Atlantic so she could re-license images from the shoot before the election).

link (click on thumbnail in article for full size (bizzare) shot of McCain) : http://www.pdnpulse.com/2008/09/how-jill-greenb.html

[MrScorpio]

1. I hope that Alex Ross sees that pic

He would paint it up right

[geomon666]

5. New model for Lex Luthor. n/t

[Starbucks Anarchist]

16. I actually thought it was Alex Ross' work at first.

:rofl:

[NJmaverick]

2. He looks like a corpse in the full size picture

scary

[Barack_America]

3. Citizen Kane.

That's what this pic reminds me of.

[Ghost in the Machine]

4. More proof he's a dickhead... the shadow shows his true self...

[rucky]

6. They got some of his profile, too...

[eShirl]

7. Martin Landau in "Ed Wood"

[KittyWampus]

8. Hitchcock

[eShirl]

9. lol DH says "picnic ham"

(upon viewing the fullsize photo)

[justiceischeap]

10. He sure is saggy. n/t

[uncle ray]

11. nevermind

i must have hit the crack pipe a little too early this morning.

[roody]

12. Most 72-year-olds have saggy skin and

red eyes. It's not fair to make his looks an issue. I hope to reach age 72 and more, and won't care how saggy, etc. my body is.

[terrya]

13. The cover art for Frtiz Lang's "M"

That's the first thing I thought of when I saw this.

[dysfunctional press]

14. great- another story to help garner sympathy for mccain. just what we need.

yay...:eyes:

[BigAnth]

15. McLame got Punk'd!!

[Stellabella]

17. I'm melllllting! I'm melllltttinnnggg!

n/t

[Billy Burnett]

18. I'd love to see SwampRat do that pic justice. eom

[StopTheNeoCons]

19. Divorced from People

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[HughBeaumont]

22. How about you WALK THE WALK, DUMBERICA?

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/HughBeaumont/51

The American people either cannot figure out why everything around them has been so shitty these past 28 years or are so deluded that they don't want to bother their beautiful minds with "silly conjectured Maoist conspiracy theories."

Like the people in red states such as Ohio and Nebraska that lose their jobs due to unbridled free-trade corporatism championed and enabled by Republican'ts, but they still . . . STILL keep fucking voting for them.

WALK THE WALK DUMBERICA. "Throw the bums out"! Are you waiting for an invitation or do you feel it's your right to be a stupid voter?

[ColbertWatcher]

20. k+r, n/t

[lumberjack_jeff]

21. Emperor Palpatine. n/t