We stand by the respectful image of John McCain that we used on our cover, and we expect to be judged by it. We were not aware of the manipulated and dishonest images Jill Greenberg had taken until this past Friday.
When we contract with photographers for portraits, we don't vet them for their politics—instead, we assess their professional track records. We had never worked with Jill Greenberg before (and, obviously, we will not work with her again). Based on the portraits she had done of politicians like Arnold Schwarzenegger and her work for publications like Time, Wired, and Portfolio, we expected her, like the other photographers we work with, to behave professionally.
Jill Greenberg has obviously not done that. She has, in fact, disgraced herself, and we are appalled by the manipulated images she has created for her Web site of John McCain.
Flimsy damage control -- not displayed prominently enough on their website, imho. "Respectful image" my #ss.
I'm cancelling and telling them why.
I enjoy reading that magazine. Too bad.
Jill Greenberg is also the photographer who made an album of toddlers crying, by giving them candy and then snatching it away.
How evil is that?
They're either liars or lazy and stoopid, or all three -- all you had to do to vet her was google the beotch to find out what her history is.
“...When we contract with photographers for portraits, we don’t vet them for their politics—instead, we assess their professional track records....”