Yearly Archives: 2012

Ursine

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Since the great success of her monkey portraits, artist Jill Greenberg has been asked to photograph a variety of animals. However, inspired by her personal interest, she chose to travel to Calgary and Vancouver, where she constructed outdoor studios in order to photograph giant bears.

As with the monkey portraits, Greenberg manages to capture a variety of personalities, expressions, and emotions in her ursine friends. The bears add to the artist’s amazing portfolio of impressively original portraiture.

End Times

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Jill Greenberg writes: “Nothing is more pure than the anguish of a child. Pictures of children crying capture raw emotion: sputtering rage and profound loss.” And, as a mother of two kids, Greenberg knows firsthand how quickly and unexpectedly storms of grief can sweep across the face of a toddler.

The first child that Greenberg photographed suddenly became hysterically upset. It reminded her of the helplessness and anger she felt about the current political situation. It made Greenberg think of her outrage at the false reasons for the United States going to war with Iraq and the scandalous way in which the conflict was sold to the American people. She titled the image “Four More Years.”

Monkey Portraits*

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Over a period of approximately five years, Jill Greenberg photographed more than thirty different primates – – about twenty different species, including marmosets, mandrills, macaques, and a chimpanzee, to name only a few.

Fascinated by these creatures’ expressions, emotions, and intelligence, Greenberg’s subjects are ultimately a reflection of their human cousins.

“Monkey Portraits*” was published as a monograph of seventy-five photographs by Little, Brown & Company in the fall of 2006.

Sid #174

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2010

Signed and numbered on label, verso

Archival pigment print

58 x 101 inches
(Edition of 3)

41 x 71.5 inches
(Edition of 5)

20 x 34.9 inches
(Edition of 4)

Contact gallery for prices.