Jill Greenberg: A Revolution in Commercial Photography
Posted on January 9, 2020
Jill Greenberg. From the series “Glass Ceiling,” 2008.
As a child, Jill Greenberg intuitively understood that the world is a stage upon which she could construct scenes to photograph the pleasures and pathos of life. “It was never documentary for one minute,” she says with a laugh, over a cup of tea in her New York loft.
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Greenberg’s passion for portraiture began as an extension of her drawing practice. “I don’t draw from life; I draw from people in my head,” she says. “They are theatrically funny, surreal, and cartoon-y. There are a lot of different styles that I do but it all comes back to portraiture. It’s identity, expression, emotion, angles, light, beauty, color, and design all mixed together.”
