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This http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1R-V846_Mm8 is what came to mind when I saw the McSame portrait.
Two can play at that game...
Here's Obama as I photographed him coming out of the Washington State Convention Center....obviously no make-up on this time:
I don't get it; the magazine hired a left-wing artist to do a photo shoot for their cover, she provided an image they objected to and then used the leftover images from the cover shoot for her own "art" but then the magazine still went ahead and used her art on the cover anyway, apologizing after the fact?
God, the McCain people are such whiners.
@3 The magazine used an unoffensive image from the shoot for their cover, and apologized for the images on her site because they were part of the shoot that they hired her to do. They hired her because she has done plenty of professional covers and portraits of celebrities (see the ones in her site) that weren't offensive.
@5, got it - I thought they were apologizing for the image they'd used on their own cover, like they'd somehow been tricked into running it.
I'd be curious to see how that issue of the use of the remaining images worked out, legally...
"What did she gain by being in the room with him?"
She got photographs of him looking real and in actual garish underlighting along with the rights to use her negatives in whatever way she wants. That's a lot more powerful than the publicity that might have come from a Fark-type photoshop job.
I agree that the shark-toothed photoshoppery is childish, but I laugh more and more upon repeated viewings.
I wish more artists would realize that Flash websites are a horrible idea. This one is annoying to navigate, and it seems to be hanging on full-size image loads half the time.
Any pointers to where to find the McCain images on the site? All I see is the Atlantic cover.
Eh... she bit the hand that fed her. That's not unethical just stupid...unless she's got more hands lined up.
The real consequence will be that photographers won't be allowed to keep the rights to anything from their shoots. If the only reason McCain is there is because of the Atlantic then who's really going to write her a blank check?
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That's the whole point: makes it harder to link to and copy the images. A lot of artists' web sites are done like that.
Anyway, click on Names and then page right to the find John McCain in the J's.
Making children cry for art.
How artsy. And what does she do to animals?
For art, that is.
The more subtle ones are the best. The monkey? Not so much.
And... she's just stoked the persecution complex of white Republicans. Laughable as that notion is, I'm not sure if that's a wise political move.
@10, harder, yes, but still not that hard. And really, I think a Flash site is still just preventing good publicity, as in this case. For people like me who bother to go to the work, they can still link directly to the images, e.g:
McCain with shark teeth and blood
McCain with yellow teeth and choice quote
The Photo-shopped images aside, it is curious that the un-captioned, unaltered lit-from-below shot is somehow considered less "honest" than the standard soft-focus, Photoshopped-to-de-emphasize-his-neck-wattle shot that we are used to seeing. Why is flattering lighting and re-touching "honest" and unflattering lighting and re-touching not?
I love this woman. Deeply. Brilliant work.
To get to the shots of him, you click on "names" on the first page (right under "covers") and then go to the j's until you get to John McCain.
Mc Cain with yellow teeth and Cunt Caption is nominated for a Stranger cover, great, doing poster size for the office cork board.
@13
It's worth noting that teh Internets have been telling creative people to give their work away and enjoy the publicity for years, and it hasn't paid off for those that did. I think everyone understands that no copy protection is perfect. It is there to be a speed bump, making it not worth the trouble.
But I don't care; I'm not an artist. By all means, join the chorus of Net voices telling artists their work wants to be free. I don't think they'll listen any more.
air = free
old Chinese saying
Obama doesn't look like his usual fine self on the cover either, it was equally unflattering.
@17, you're missing the point entirely. There are plenty of ways to frustrate downloading images, if that's really what one's after, without using Flash (Flickr does this at the user's request, without Flash). More importantly, though, flash sites tend to be annoying to navigate, harder to make accessible, and un-permalinkable. And as seen above, images can be as easily direct-linked as a non-Flash site.
Flash vs. non-flash? Really? Yawn.
I am so glad she did this. Now McCain should understand how we feel as American's when we are lied to about issues and politics. Republicans are nothing but whinners, 'They can dish it out but they sure as hell can't take it."
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