Monday entry (for 9/28/09): Artist of interest: Jill Greenberg

Jill Greenberg was born in Montreal, Canada in July, 1967 and grew up in Detroit, Michigan. She attended the Rhode Island School of Design and graduated with honors in 1989 with a BFA in Photography. Shortly thereafter she moved to New York to pursue a career in photography. She is both a commercial and fine art photographer with notable clients such as Microsoft, MTV, Sony, Paramount Pictures, Disney, ect. Greenberg is known for her photographs of celebrities and animals, both shot with her trademark lighting, heavy use of Photoshop manipulation and gradient color backgrounds. She is best known for her body of work created in 2006 titled End Times, a series of photographs of crying toddlers. Controversy surrounded End Times due to the fact that Greenberg made each child cry by promising them candy and taking it away. The parents of each child, however, were present at the time of the shoot. The series was meant to depict Greenberg's frustration with both the Bush Administration and Christian Fundamentalism in America.

Official website for Jill Greenberg.

Interview with Jill Greenberg.


End Times was showcased at the Kopeiking Gallery in West Hollywood, CA.