Comments on: What’s grosser than gross?

By: Kelli in the Mirror

Kelli in the Mirror — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 03:40:00 +0000

I hadn’t heard anything about her either. She’s insane. And I think it’s very strange to make it a political thing. I wonder if she told people beforehand… “I’m going to take this picture of your baby crying and say it’s because of the state of the world he’s growing up in.”
And if so, even if you really hate Bush, do all these people hate him enough to put their children through this? Why not sign a petition or something instead? It’s ridiculous.

By: GranolaGirl12

GranolaGirl12 — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 15:37:00 +0000

You made some good points as to why it’s so wrong. I’ll never look at those target ads in the same light again, knowing she’s the photographer. Thanks for clueing me in– I also missed the debate, but I guess I’m glad I did.

By: Katie

Katie — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 03:01:00 +0000

Yuck. I checked out the artcle and the pictures and it makes me sick. Did you see the price of those things? I can’t believe that moms would subject their children to this. I completely agree with you on this.

By: kate

kate — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 00:23:00 +0000

beth, i’m shocked. truly.

By: Cmommy

Cmommy — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 22:14:00 +0000

I think you said that very well–you are a great writer and don’t give yourself enough credit.

Wow. I’ve missed this entire debate; where have I been?

(ps: weeds…I pulled too many under protest as a child, also! Blade by blade is harsh, though! LOL–is your yard a rock garden now? Thinking about ‘planting’ some rocks myself!) C

By: Mama D

Mama D — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:17:00 +0000

Somehow if this ‘experiment’ was being performed on unsuspecting adults or what about mentally challenged people there would be an uproar. What would be the difference? Why is it then that there is simply just controversy on this subject?

I must admit the actual photographs themselves are amazing. They have a strange silvery quality to them. Maybe because of their surreal appearance it is easier for people to forget that the subject of the portrait is a real, live, hysterical child.

I, like Lynanne have taken pictures of A crying. Sometimes it is cute or you just want to have photos that capture all of their emotions rather than just the happy times. But I would never provoke it.

By: Nikkie

Nikkie — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 21:16:00 +0000

I don’t need to read the article to know that I think what she is doing is terrible! It makes it even more sick to me that she does this to her own babies!

I cannot even imagine sitting there and letting her do that to my baby. It makes me sick to my stomach.

By: LynAnne

LynAnne — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:40:00 +0000

Thank you for this post. I was relieved to see negative reactions like these when I first heard about this. Although I’m not an artist, I have snapped photos of my children crying to capture a mood. However, I never could provoke a child to cry - that’s just plain cruel.

Perhaps someone should bring her into a studio and drop her camera right in front of her before snapping a photo. It wouldn’t cause her any psychological damage would it?

By: mopsy

mopsy — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:02:00 +0000

Amen.

It’s cruel.

By: beth

beth — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 18:52:00 +0000

Kate, actually she does have kids and has done this to them.