I don't know if I would call making children cry sick, but it is certainly pretty tasteless. Michelle makes a point about the reaction the liberal press and Democrats would have if this were a conservative making references to a liberal administration and it is right on the money.

Update - I have done a bit more reading around the web, and apparently she goes a bit farther than just provoking the children to get them crying. She strips them down and works them into a state of emotional distress. She even stated in an article with American Photo magazine how frustrating it was to get the parents of less than cooperative children to step out of the studio for a minute. WTF would she need to ask them to step out for unless she was saying shit to the kids that their parents shouldn't hear?

I have been reading Thomas Hawk's blog for awhile, I came across it a few months back when I was doing a search to find out how to get flickr to work with MCE, and I really respect his opinion. Apparently the Liberal Jill Greenberg who believes in free speech has decided that that does not apply to anyone that disagrees with her art and has gone as far to contact Hawk's employer as well as threatening libel.

What a crock of shit. I am by no means any kind of artist nor a professional photographer, by I did work for a photographer for several years and you just DO NOT treat children like this. My boss did some baby photos of my son when he was very young, and of course SOME of them have him crying, mainly because he was unhappy being dressed. We fixed the situation and made him more comfortable. Would I see anything wrong in publishing the crying pictures of him? No, because he certainly wasn't provoked to that point, it's just what he happened to be doing at the time.

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