| Subject: another thing to write, soon |
| From: Jill Greenberg <jill@manipulator.com> |
| Date: 4/22/11, 15:50 |
| To: robert green <robertogreen@gmail.com> |
| CC: Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> |
Since the age of 10, Jill Greenberg has
staged photographs and created characters using the mediums of drawing, painting, sculpture, film and photography. Her work
is often inspired by social criticism and personal experience. In 2005,
"End Times", her series of staged, dramatic studio portraits of young
children was inspired by her perception, as a new mother, that the environment
was being raped by corporations, fueled by delusional beliefs and greed. In
reading Robert F. Kennedys then-current book, ____Crimes Against Nature , as
well a speech given by Bill Moyers, she discovered that a large percentage of
Americans were rooting for large scale natural disasters and logged their
awfulness on the rapture index. Hoping that the ever more frequent bad news
was actually good news and that the raprture was near. and writings on the due
to the right wing religious zealots who actually believe in the rapture having
the ear of the powers in Washington dc . religious, political, and
environmental themes
Her newest work,
"Glass Ceiling, " marks a return to the 80's feminist theory that
inspired her senior thesis, "The Female Object" as an art student at
RISD in the 80's : "The disciplinary project of femininity" and the
predetermined failure of all women who attempt to "succeed" at
it.
As a working
photographer she travails to straddle the line between her fine art practice
and more commercial assignment work. On one notable occasion, a conflict
arose when she was assigned to photograph the Republican candidate for
presidency in the summer 2008, at the height of his popularity : after
delivering the assignment exactly as requested, she chose to speak out, in this
very unique circumstance, in the form of agit prop outtakes on her own website,
which she was legally allowed and morally compelled to do.
Greenberg
has reopened her research of the history of aggressive feminine bodily
transformation and restrictive clothing, and even corporal punishment. Futher,
the discovery of the similarities in the treatment of women to animals :
medieval devices to silence women, called scolds bridles and horse
paraphernalia such as bridles and bits are strikingly similar. And bits
specifically, deemed to be a necessary evil in the control of horses
usefulness, seems to have a relation to high heel shoes that women fetishize,
despite their painfulness and impracticality.