Jill Greenberg's Work
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"Care to explain instead of trolling" - kgvs72
The second Flickr link that MrWhite posted is probably the best. Most of the commentors explain how she achieves her lighting. It's pretty apparent if you've seen her work and studied it a little bit.
Two snoots placed behind-and-to-the-side the subject, symmetrical to the subject, and focused onto the subject. They give those nice sharp highlights around the edges of her subjects.
Two umbrellas placed in front-and-to-the-sides of the subject. Symmetrical to the subject, and focused onto the subject. They ensure an even lighting for either side of the body/face.
A ringflash and possible beauty dish combo (I've heard she uses both) in order to get a nice, gentle falloff of light on subject's faces.
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You can think of it as a gradient of lighting, similar to a greyscale gradient. The snoots provide super sharp and bright highlights on the very edges. The Umbrellas are a little more diffused as you move towards the more visible sides, with less harsh, direct light. And finally the beauty dish gives a very soft, weak falloff light.That gives you the strange but beautiful sort of gradient and hyper-real effect of her photos.