Tate Modern Removes Naked Picture of 10-Yr Old Brooke Shields
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/sep/30/brooke-shields-naked-tate-modern
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The artwork is Spiritual America, by US artist Richard Prince. The work depicts the 10-year-old Brooke Shields, nude and heavily made up.
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Spiritual America is a photograph of a photograph. The original – authorised by Shields' mother for $450 – had been taken by a commercial photographer, Gary Gross, for the Playboy publication Sugar 'n' Spice in 1976. Shields later attempted, unsuccessfully, to suppress the picture.
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What do you think? Should the image have been removed? Is it child pornography? Is Shields being exploited?
By the way...this is a link to a complete shot of the image in question
http://iconicphotos.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/482f568a9b7e9_normal.jpg
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AnnieMole
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Interestingly there seem to have been no comments made by Brooke Shields on this herself. Plus the police visited the exhibition after seeing coverage in the papers rather than it being because of complaints.
The Tate is an art gallery but the police believe it may make it a "potential magnet" for paedophiles. Surely they can get their kicks elsewhere?
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AnnieMole
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masterzip
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old photographs are equivalent to modern day "sexting."
should the image be removed? No, unless you get a ton of pervey men attending the museum to play with the yankees.
is it child porn? no,...no way. The great french filmmaker, Catherine Breillat, once said, "if you have to ask if it is porongraphy or not, than your answer has to be 'no,' because everyone knows what pornography is"
Lets be adult about art and sex, and sexuality.
Brooke may feel exploited, but she is misdirecting her feelings as it was her mother that exploited her, not the artist who snapped the photograph.
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masterzip
