Seriously, How Is This Legal?...

[sexdog121]

Just wrong

 

[hillhopper]

I wish I could answer the question of how this could be legal...doesn't seem like it should be! I have a big problem with the photos not appearing to be as innocent as those taken by parents as candids. The heavy make up and the one pose I've seen, I think, suggest a sexuality of an underage child...that to me is the dispicable part. The fact that you couldn't as an adult retroactivealy seek control of your own image seems totally against most things we American hold dear in terms of privacy and rights to our own image. I think Brooke's mom is a horrible woman for allowing this to happen to her daughter and not at lease protecting her future rights, to say nothing of the idea of these photos being turned into sexualized images.
I think the controversy is what is making this 'worth' it to the museum...the buzz and gossip and division among opinions..the watercooler talk... is all press and reputation they couldn't have gotten from regular advertising...sleezeballs!

 

[habo9]

To be honest I dont really care if its natural , art or pornography , in this day and age , no naked pictures of kids should be displayed anywhere in public!!

 

[Mrs Jolly]

This murky area of censorship and the question art/not art will not go away. That doesn't mean that some self policing wouldn't go amiss. The thing that gets lost here for me is the glaring and obvious fact that as art these images don't accomplish much beyond highlighting again the understandable societal discomfort with sexual imagery and minors. Why are galleries and agents, who surely have seen this type of work a thousand times before, still pushing it? (Money, probably.) The curator of this show needs a kick up the arse.

I'm sure we have seen the back of this type of thing until the next time.

 

[Tyger_]

It really appears to be child exploitation. I am very much against child pornography and anything that may promote it. This incident is not ok with me.

 

[JacknCoke]

Brooke Shields is, and always has been, a whore.

Why don't you tell us how you really feel?

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

Only in Europe, folks. :dunno:

 

[BlueBalls]

Only in Europe, folks. :dunno:

Really? It was shown at the Guggenheim before it was shown in London. Where was everyones outrage then? :dunno:

There doesn't seem to have been any. Shall I make an assumption about the mind set of the US public in their allowance of this image to be shown without any major complaints? I won't, but I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this.

 

[max0rz]

I believe there may have been some outrage about the US showing, although it never reached fever pitch.
I'm not sure there has been that much outrage over the UK showing either. Most places are just reporting it as a basic news item.

mind you, it is interesting how this has been treated after all the furore earlier this year about the scorpions album cover.
That was ultimately given a pass because of free speech/freedom of expression etc. :dunno:

 

[Spleen]

Really? It was shown at the Guggenheim before it was shown in London. Where was everyones outrage then? :dunno:

There doesn't seem to have been any. Shall I make an assumption about the mind set of the US public in their allowance of this image to be shown without any major complaints? I won't, but I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this.

zing!