Jill Greenberg

Jill Greenberg is most noted for her fine art and her portrait photography. She utilizes her subject and pastes them against a sort-of bland back drop to create a certain mood to the picture. I find her work for magazines and commercials rather dull and boring, most of the pictures cute her off at the knees as far as artistic capabilities. As far as her as fine art, I feel like this is a total 180 from her commercial work. For example, her series "the glass ceiling" has a certain elegance and beauty to it. In the image above you see the underwater dancers body but you never see their heads, and the way that the red reflects off the surface almost gives off a red texture in the water that reminds me of blood. In the artists statement about the works, she says that its a direct reflection on how the masculine figure and the masculine image of what women should be sculpted to be.