Jill Greenberg (born July 10, 1967) is an American photographer and Pop artist. She is known for her portraits and fine art work that often features anthropomorphized animals that have been digitally manipulated with painterly effects. Her photography of animals is regarded for its capability to show a wide range of expressions and feelings that are comparable to that of a seasoned actor or actress. Some of the primates she has captured on film are actually celebrates in their own right, having been featured in different TV shows or movies. She is also highly recognized for her distinct, and stylized photography of celebrities including well known performers such as Gwen Stefani, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood. She is also known for inserting her own strong opinions into her work. In reference to her work Greenberg states “They’re portraits and they’re personal but there’s a little twist going on. An edge.”
Greenberg is frequently employed by companies including Sony Pictures, Interview, Rolling Stone, Time, GQ, DreamWorks, Target, Microsoft, and HBO.
Table of Contents
- 1 Biography
- 2 Personal life
- 3 Photography career
- 3.1 Monkey Portraits
- 3.2 Jill Greenberg, End times
- 3.3 Ursine
- 3.4 Bear Portraits
- 3.5 Horses by Greenberg, Jill, Homes, A. M. (2012) Hardcover
- 3.6 Horses
- 3.7 Matthew Morrison and the Cast Signed Brand New Playbill from A Naked Girl on the Appian Way starring, Jill Clayburgh Richard Thomas Matthew Morrison Ann Guilbert Written by Richard Greenberg
- 3.8 Horses by Jill Greenberg (2012-10-02)
- 3.9 Brand New Playbill from A Naked Girl on the Appian Way starring, Jill Clayburgh Richard Thomas Matthew Morrison Ann Guilbert Written by Richard Greenberg
- 3.10 Bear Portraits by Jill Greenberg (2009-11-26)
- 3.11 More interesting reads:
Biography
Greenberg was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and grew stirring in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan.
Greenberg began photography taking into consideration she was 9 years old. According to a 1998 New York Times article, Greenberg’s mother was a computer programmer and her father was a doctor.
Greenberg took classes at Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts. In 1984, she attended the Photography Summer Session held by Parsons School of Design in Paris. In 1985, she won a Traub Memorial Scholarship Travel Fund from Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
In 1988, Greenberg completed coursework on “Semiotics in Media” with Mary Ann Doane at Brown University. In 1989, she graduated with honors from the Rhode Island School of Design similar to a BFA in Photography.
Personal life
Greenberg met her Robert “Rob” Green in Los Angeles after disturbing there in 2000. Greenberg moved back to New York City in 2013 subsequent to her family for her husband’s position as SVP, Creative-Digital at Condé Nast Entertainment.
Greenberg and Green have two children, daughter Violet and son Zed.
Photography career
In 1992, Greenberg began vigorous for Sassy magazine, doing flyer photography even if working on getting her artistic career off the ground.
Greenberg is known for celebrity portraits, using painterly effects that are drawn using computer technology.
2011’s Glass Ceiling series on the go shooting below water, using scuba gear. She hired professional synchronized swimmers and photographed them in a pool in Culver City. The Glass Ceiling series was featured as a commercial installation in Los Angeles, on the northwest corner of Sunset Boulevard at Fairfax (viewable though driving east).
In October 2012, Greenberg published a autograph album of photographs called Horse that features images of horses. Greenberg built photo studios within horse rings to accept the photographs. Shooting took place in Los Angeles in an area called Walker’s Basin and also in Vancouver at Danny Virtue’s ranch, a man who supplies horses to the film industry.
In January 2014, Greenberg had an exhibition in Canada of images from “Horse.”
In August 2008, The Atlantic asked her to photograph John McCain for the magazine’s October 2008 cover. Greenberg said they didn’t have plenty money to pay her correspondingly she gave them license to use one of her photos for the cover (while she retained ownership of the photo) for free, for one era use. Greenberg granted to make some personal images of the pictures. “I in fact didn’t want there to be substitute Republican in the White House, so I settled to put my McCain pictures out upon voting day.” Saying she saying the accomplish as diplomatic cartoons. “I thought it was the Artist Jill Greenberg appropriating the perform of the Commercial Photographer Jill Greenberg.”
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