Oh, Lord love a duck! The name “Bush” is mentioned exactly once!
And, where, exactly, is any reference “and then decided to do a series based on the same idea.” Where? Outside of your own imagination, that is.
Now, if you had a baby puking his tiny little guts out, that would be an appropriate political statement.
:rolleyes:
For all I see she could have got a happy kid and her inspiration could have gone elsewhere, once again it is you who is not understanding the meaning of “How did you come up with this project?” the answer: not by planning to bash Bush beforehand or even exclusively like the OP implied.
And if “you don’t care how many other things” are the subject of the work, you are indeed falling in the partisan position that many times you claim you are not taking.
Exactly once, yes, when she was asked, exaclty once, how she got the idea for the project!!
And I’m sure when she talked about making a “political statement” about the anxiety she and others feel, she must’ve been talking about the dire situation that Nancy Pelosi has put us in since she became minority leader in the House. Yeah, that’s it. That’s the ticket.
Her other portraits have that same wierd look: here. Maybe she uses Photoshop to kick the saturation up to 11?
I prefer the home video approach to the crying fad: Crying while eating
Oh, I supose it’s just an “accident” that one picture is entitled “Grand Old Party”, and another is entitled “Shock and Awe”. Nothing about Bush there. No siree-Bob! Click on the picture in the link and you can see a slide show of the other photos.
John Mace is completely right. She explains that the FIRST picture she took of a crying child, he started crying while she was taking the picture:
Then when she saw the developed pictures, she came up with the idea for the caption…
And then finishes answering the question by explaining how that one picture became an idea for the project…
one of the goals of it being a political statement…
This seems pretty clear to me.
Aside from that, I think it takes a pretty mean person to make babies cry on purpose, just to create art.
Personally, it bothers me that someone would intentionally make little kids cry, regardless of the reason. And her hyperbole about how her 2-year-old cries “for no reason, a hundred times a day” is a little suspect in my view.
On the other hand, she also says “I don’t like making little kids cry.”
Obviously, she’s not making kids cry for “the Anti-Bush Cause,” but I can relate to this quote of hers: “Sometimes I just feel like crying about the way things are going.”
Really?The picture in the link Bircker provided was not the one that got her started, obviously. She said it was a little boy, ie, the one in the link I just gave.
Read more carefully, John, you’re embarassing yourself. “When…conceived the idea of photographing crying children back in 2004…” Where is the political reference? From whence your intuitive leap that she was anticipating an anti-Bush project? She took the photo and when she got back the “contacts” she thought of a caption.
Heck, look at the sample offered. Does it make any reference at all to politics? If the point of the project were to make political hay, wouldn’t the proferred sample reflect that? And yet, oddly, it does not.
Stop digging, this one is a total loser. Of course, that’s exactly what a Bush hater would say…
Well, that last sentence is easy to agree with.
According to the article, the kid in the “four more years” pic was crying all by himself.
FWIW, I don’t like the idea of making the kids cry for any pic, anti-Bush or not.
In Tighty Right Tai Chi, the move “Repulse Monkey” is followed by “Grasp for Straw”.
She was interviewed on one of the morning shows, where she said that some children cried on their own, some cried when their parents said they had to go home and some were given candy that was then taken away. In all cases, the parents were present for the photo shoot.
Here are the titles of all the photos in that link:
Shock
Faith
The Rapture Index
Trillions
Grand Old Party
Four More Years
The Truth
Apocalypse Now
Big Brother
Cover Up
Deniability
Earth
Intelligent Design
Left Behind
Misinformation
Nucular (sic)
Postdiluvian
Spin
Tribulations
Unless
Torture
Anyone still wants to say this isn’t about Bush?
And in context, it is clearly only an example of one of the pieces. The name most often mentioned for the exhibit is “cry-babies” or “end of times” and the criticism launched against Greenberg in Photo circles is indeed the one of the implied abuse to the children, the Bush bashing in a few pieces in the exhibit is a “baba the perico” (a parrot’s spit) worth of criticism that **Briker ** brought forth only to get in the way of a deserved non-partisan pitting.
But that is making a metaphor a reality: Ask yourself who is the crybaby? Even here, I think you are ignoring who is the one that is being insulted.
Those pictures all look computer-generated, like the people in that “Final Fantasy” movie. It’s just so weird.
The photos are real, its the babies that are computer generated.
I disagree with bashing the woman because she’s anti-Bush. I’d rather bash her for having so little creative talent that she tries to make a living off of bad, schlocky art. Kids cry all the fuckin’ time; it’s what they do for the first two years (or the first 16 years, in the case of my youngest). Get over yourselves. As for the theme, her titles make no sense and the photography is just over-corrected crap.
‘Postdiluvian’ can’t be about Bush. He’s the Antediluvian president.
While some of the anti-Bush flameouts on this board have been pitiful, it’s sad to see Bricker and John Mace going similarly nuts over this silliness.
Omigod - poor widdle toddlers EMOTIONALLY WARPED FOR LIFE so that this HORRIBLE WOMAN could make a POLITICAL STATEMENT!!!
It’s enough to make you cry. Or better yet, laugh.
“Universal condemnation” indeed.
What child defenders should really be up in arms about is the equating of monkey and ape images with those of children.
More realistic questions that come to mind reading the article: I wonder if other primates photographed in this fashion look so artificial? And did she try to make the monkeys cry by taking away their food or toys, only to give up the project when they walloped her one instead of sobbing? 