Jill Greenberg was born on July 10,1967 and is a Canadian-born American photographer and Pop artist.
20 Facts About Jill Greenberg
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Jill Greenberg is known for her portraits and fine art work that often features anthropomorphized animals that have been digitally manipulated with painterly effects.
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Jill Greenberg is highly recognized for her distinct, and stylized photography of celebrities including well known performers such as Gwen Stefani, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood.
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Jill Greenberg is known for inserting her own strong opinions into her work.
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Jill Greenberg is frequently employed by companies including Sony Pictures, Interview, Rolling Stone, Time, GQ, DreamWorks, Target, Microsoft, and HBO.
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Jill Greenberg was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and grew up in a suburb of Detroit, Michigan.
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Jill Greenberg took classes at Cranbrook Academy of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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In 1988, Jill Greenberg completed coursework on "Semiotics in Media" with Mary Ann Doane at Brown University.
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In 1992, Jill Greenberg began working for Sassy magazine, doing commercial photography while working on getting her artistic career off the ground.
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Jill Greenberg is known for celebrity portraits, using painterly effects that are drawn using computer technology.
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Jill Greenberg hired professional synchronized swimmers and photographed them in a pool in Culver City.
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In October 2012, Jill Greenberg published a book of photographs called Horse that features images of horses.
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Jill Greenberg built photo studios within horse rings to take the photographs.
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Jill Greenberg said they didn't have enough money to pay her so she gave them license to use one of her photos for the cover for free, for one time use.
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Jill Greenberg decided to make some personal images of the pictures.
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Jill Greenberg is credited by some within the commercial photography industry as having produced several unique styles that have since been emulated by other photographers.
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In 1995, Jill Greenberg branded her first website the moniker "The Manipulator" after the 80s German photography magazine'.
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Jill Greenberg has acknowledged having made particular use of digital post production, adapting the nickname "The Manipulator" early in her career due in part to her relatively early adoption of Photoshop, a product she has used since its release in 1990.
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Jill Greenberg met her now ex husband Robert "Rob" Green in Los Angeles after moving there in 2000.
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Jill Greenberg moved back to New York City in 2013 with her family for her husband's position as SVP, Creative-Digital at Conde Nast Entertainment.