Professional photographer Jill Greenberg, who, notably, opened an exhibition in 2004 filled with anti-Bush artwork, took some rather unflattering, back-lit photos of John McCain for The Atlantic Monthly recently. Usually, Greenberg is a talented and photographer, but after the McCain shoot, she photoshopped McCain's visage to look like this.
I'm not surprised that FoxNews and The Wall Street Journal Best of the Web are covering the story, but I'm glad to see that other left-of-center news outlets are also. Of course, Jeffery Goldberg from The Atlantic Online (no relation) also covered the story with ire. Interestingly, even a blogger from PC World covered the story, if only because the pictures are poor examples of a professional photographer using Photoshop.
Greenberg has done some fabulous portraits of John Stewart and Gwen Stefani. Some of her art has been provocative and shocking, but her photoshopped pictures of McCain are immature, crude, and many are offended by the fact that they're so poorly executed and childish. I'm glad to see that she's been chastised by both Democrats and Republicans alike.
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