Art vs. porn
What do you get when you take Elton John, Nan Goldin and a photograph of a naked child?
Apparently, a legal mess. Watch out everyone! Nudity is going to quickly overtake terrorism as the world’s next biggest threat.
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This is the greatest part of the article -
“Gut-instinct, she added, was also crucial.”
I also liked:
“You can’t tell who is in your gallery and why they are looking at images.”
and:
“There are some images which just don’t feel right. What is important is the lasting impression you get once you have viewed the image. If it leaves you with the lasting impression that what you are viewing is child abuse, then it probably is.”
Insert Anne Geddes joke here:______________________
A few days removed, I see that that last comment was not so funny after all.
It is kind of weird reading articles like the one you linked when living in a country where CH1LD P0RN is sold pre packaged (with barcodes and everything) on shelves out in the open in what look at first like normal bookstores.
It’s like people in England making a big deal because someone backed over a stray cat, when in another part of the world (Japan) some people make a living running over lions with trucks.
…Personnally, I think it is a good idea to look behind before putting your car in reverse, and one really needs to let lions be free and unmolested out on the Savannah. Or in this case, grade school.
It thought the comment was funny. The standards they were using (”gut” test and “i just feel like it is after i look at it”) were ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as Anne Geddes.
I find Anne Geddes work sexy.
That comment makes me a uncomfortable, Austin. In my gut.
Yep. I’ve given it some time, and I am just struck with the lasting impression that it’s just not right.
Austin…I have heard tell the E*S is rocking Madison on the 12th…if you need a crowded place to stay, I’ve got a little room.
I thought that was to point of her work…kind of like Mapplethorpe, but hipper…(I have know idea what that means…I made myself ashamed of myself). Oh, McCauley, thanks but we had to cancel that show on account of the fact that we can’t do it…
How are things?
I second Brad’s question. How are they?
I have a little extra money and wanted to give you some for the website before I blow it on booze. Let me know what the best way is. Peace oooot.
Bradley, what is the link to your new site???? I need to do the same thing too!!!
I am really starting to get worried……where are you justin?
Blame survey, then mid terms. Andrei is unable to use the gym and he is pissed. I would then follow that with open studios, and then after November 2, I would start blogging.
Maybe Justin is investigating this Art vs Porn by looking up lots of porno movies on internets? To investigate of course. “Is crafting Porn an art?” Justin asks himself. Hmm. More investigation is necessary.
Anyone up for poker game during fall break?