Jill Greenberg loses her job

McCain Photographer Fired

For being another unprofessional liberal snot

The Vaughan Hannigan photo agency, which has represented the disgraced, excrement-obsessed photoshopper Jill Greenberg, has just dropped her from its client list. Bill Hannigan, who runs the agency, told me a few minutes ago that Greenberg and the agency had "different views on how to conduct business." He said he couldn't say anything more because he is "still sorting out some issues with Jill related to her contract." --Jeffrey Goldberg National Correspondent of The Atlantic “ The story: Photographer Jill Greenberg is hired by the magazine The Atlantic to take a portrait of Republican presidential candidate John McCain for the magazine's October issue. "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." (source; let's keep the "not very sophisticated" in mind!). Needless to say, the results of that photo shoot are less than flattering for McCain (see the raw shot here). Greenberg then used her Photoshop skills to create imagery like this one, while "hoping to license that image to some other magazine" (ibid.). -- Jörg Colberg's weblog ” The O Club