August 27, 2006
A cry for art
If Orwell really said 'Some ideas are so stupid that only an intellectual could believe them', he might have added that there's no notion so inane that some artistic person won't come up with it. On the front of the Sunday Times magazine today there are photographs - 20 of them - of young children crying. They were made to cry by the photographer, Jill Greenberg, arranging for their mothers to give them lollipops and then take the lollipops away. And for why?
[She] intended her images of sobbing babies to be a metaphorical commentary on what she sees as the evils of the Bush administration and the dangerous influence of the evangelical religious right.
What a bold concept. And the best way of achieving this aim:
I was trying to make images that made you feel something, because we are so inundated with images in our culture that oftentimes people don't feel anything.
We've all got deadened feelings, so... I know, I'll distress a whole lot of kids.
2006-09-06 18:48:34 · 14 answers · asked by Doug B 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It's not child abuse but it certainly is wrong to use small children like that for political gain, Bush-bashing and religious right bashing.
Did she say whether or not she told the parents of her actual goals/plan/theme?
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2006-09-06 18:58:03 · answer #1 · answered by Firefly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats a shame what people would do just to get 15 minutes of fame, I could never take candy from a child. That is really so sad, I hate it when children cry.
2006-09-06 18:53:22 · answer #2 · answered by curiosity 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I even have an identical desire, yet it will be impossible to get rid of this finished because of the fact that in some cultures is ordinary to abuse your newborn (happens alot in Latin u.s. and the middle east). a minimum of in u.s. you gotta placed concern on adults, you think of that childrens can sue their mom and dad after some age. yet this might carry awful outcomes. some careful and serius study must be achieved then. It comething like whilst a pupil sues a bully. yet each thing has it is result, the bullied might grow to be the bully and the youngster might have ability over his mom and dad. i be attentive to this sounds fairly loopy, yet hiya! it ought to take place!!
2016-10-14 10:03:12 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If it happened once or twice per kid I would not call it abuse. It is funny, I seem to see crying kids in every store and restaurant. Why would one have to make a child cry other then laziness??
2006-09-06 18:52:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably should received ethics clearance from an ethics board before performing such a psychological study. That's generally why such endeavours are done at Universities that have such boards.
2006-09-06 18:52:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
IT would only be child abuse if they did not give the lollipop back. ;) Seriously though, I think that is..... well dumb. In truth, we may not "feel" as much as we should b/c we are bombarded w/ violent images daily. Why bombard us with more?
2006-09-06 18:58:41 · answer #6 · answered by amber 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure that it's abuse, but it's certainly not nice.
It's pretty sickening, the lengths that people will go to, to try to convince other people that their way of thinking is right.
2006-09-06 18:54:45 · answer #7 · answered by Jen B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes it is in a small way. It is causing unnecessary suffering for personal/political gain.
2006-09-06 18:52:47 · answer #8 · answered by MBK 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Extremely unfair. No wonder children do not believe adults.
2006-09-06 19:04:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really don't think that's a big deal and I wouldn't call it child abuse.
2006-09-06 18:51:41 · answer #10 · answered by i luv teh fishes 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋