U of L: nude children photos in exhibit to stay

[Atomic Playboy]

My mother was a professional photographer, and believe me, I was used as a subject constantly throughout my formative years, including naked photos as a child, which were subsequently displayed to the general public. I could not possibly care less if someone saw my wang circa age 5. If you think that viewing naked children is sexual, you're the one with the problem. Why should artists have to restrain their craft because you happen to sexualize nudity in all its forms?

 

[rudder]

Meh, don't really see the big deal. If it's not pornographic or suggestive, you can make a good argument for it being "art."

I'd think it would be weird knowing those pictures are around when you're older, though. Kind of like that kid on the cover of that Nirvana album.

I bet that kid was a hero in high school.

But this exhibit features girls that are 11-12 years old. I do not want some middle aged pedophile fapping over pictures of my developing daughter. It does not matter if they are suggestive or not.

A nude baby... sure they are cute. The photolab has developed plenty of pictures of my nude children when they were babies. I guarantee that if I went in there with a picture of my daughter today, I would get a visit from DCS.

 

[DougK62]

The guy has a few photos from the exhibit on his website, at http://www.thecenturyproject.com/. Yes, even some of underage girls. Check them out - how can this possibly be seen as inappropriate or, even worse, pornography? They're beautiful pictures of beautiful people. I'd love to see the exhibit.

 

[JulesMaximus]

The guy has a few photos from the exhibit on his website, at http://www.thecenturyproject.com/. Yes, even some of underage girls. Check them out - how can this possibly be seen as inappropriate or, even worse, pornography? They're beautiful pictures of beautiful people. I'd love to see the exhibit.

Agreed.

There is nothing wrong with this exhibit. Nosy assholes with a problem should do us all a favor and jump off a cliff.

 

[Modelworks]

I am an artist and have looked at the site and see nothing wrong with it. Some of you may be shocked to learn that many artist have hundreds of photos of nude people including children . There are also thousands of statues and paintings depicting nude children. The people against this are the same people that try to outlaw breast feeding in public because, oh my it is a breast !

As supreme court justice Stewart put it " pornography is hard to define, but I know it when I see it". I doubt this qualifies.

 

[clamum]

 

[waffleironhead]

Nudity is not inherently bad it is a natural state, but given American culture and current political and legal movements those kinds of images are in bad taste even if legal.

What? Screw the "current political and legal movements". Do you personally think they are in bad taste?

 

[sourceninja]

The guy has a few photos from the exhibit on his website, at http://www.thecenturyproject.com/. Yes, even some of underage girls. Check them out - how can this possibly be seen as inappropriate or, even worse, pornography? They're beautiful pictures of beautiful people. I'd love to see the exhibit.

How can anyone say this is not art? I see nothing indecent at all with the sample. It has culture, story, and emotion. All the stuff that makes good art.

 

[Matthiasa]

What? Screw the "current political and legal movements". Do you personally think they are in bad taste?

Maybe read the whole thread before responding?
Already been answered.

 

[Kadarin]

I wonder if the argument could be made (and backed up) that all this worry and panic about sexualizing children in American culture is actually creating the mindset that children are sexual objects. In other words, nobody made a big stink about it would nobody really care? After all, most people on this planet are NOT pedophiles.

 

[waffleironhead]

Maybe read the whole thread before responding?
Already been answered.

Nah, your other answer was so contradictory that I figured I 'd ask again.

 

[scott916]

Good for them. We need to get over our silly inhibitions with nudity. I'm proud that the school is open-minded enough to defend and display their exhibit.

 

[Matthiasa]

Nah, your other answer was so contradictory that I figured I 'd ask again.

Okay for real... I really don't care, they aren't sexual in the slightest and some of the stories from the subjects that went with them are kind of heart wrenching.

 

[JulesMaximus]

I wonder if the argument could be made (and backed up) that all this worry and panic about sexualizing children in American culture is actually creating the mindset that children are sexual objects. In other words, nobody made a big stink about it would nobody really care? After all, most people on this planet are NOT pedophiles.

That's an interesting point actually.

I think we've gone too far with this when we are charging parents with pedophilia for taking pictures of their own children. It's almost as bad as the witch hunts back in colonial times.

I have candid pictures I took of my son when he was a baby getting a bath, just a couple mind you, and they are adorable IMO. I'd never post them online but I'd never delete them either because they captured a moment in time that will never come again.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Good for them. We need to get over our silly inhibitions with nudity. I'm proud that the school is open-minded enough to defend and display their exhibit.

Agreed. We need more schools fighting against stupidity and closed-mindedness (is that even a word?).

 

[KeithP]

So is this exhibit opening in conjunction with the return of "Caption EO" at Disneyland?

-KeithP

 

[Turin39789]

Hippies hate nudity?

Hippies run Kentucky's Family Foundation?

 

[SphinxnihpS]

nudity is not inherently bad it is a natural state, but given american culture and current political and legal movements those kinds of images are in bad taste even if legal.

lol

 

[Fenixgoon]

That's an interesting point actually.

I think we've gone too far with this when we are charging parents with pedophilia for taking pictures of their own children. It's almost as bad as the witch hunts back in colonial times.

I have candid pictures I took of my son when he was a baby getting a bath, just a couple mind you, and they are adorable IMO. I'd never post them online but I'd never delete them either because they captured a moment in time that will never come again.

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF215-Kitty_Photographer.jpg

 

[Newbian]

http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF215-Kitty_Photographer.jpg

In prison he will get what he deserves....

That's what you get for not using digital and making your own photo's these days.

 

[Dumac]

Nora, 12

“My mother was charged with child pornography for taking pictures of me in the bathtub when I was 8 years old. She has not been allowed to photograph me naked since then. The prosacuter said she had committed a crime, but the only crime I saw was committed by him when he refused to agknoledge her right as mother to document her daughter’s development.

Sometimes during the case I was so scared and worried that I could barely get through the day. Other kids tormented me in the playground,

“Did you know her Momma took pictures of her buck-naked?!”

Some who I barely knew, just being mean and not even stopping to think. There were hard times at home, too. My worst memory of the case was one morning when I was eating breakfast and we got a phone call, and my mother answered, hung up, and started sobbing.

“I can’t take it anymore,” was what she said.

I have a friend my age whose mother has been in jail for most of her (my friend’s) life. My friend has a lot of trouble expressing herself and has a lot of anger inside her. She lives with grandparents who are not really aquipped to take care of her and she lacks a lot of true friends. I was afraid if my family lost our case that I would end up like my friend, angry and alone. But our case didn’t turn out like that.

Our friends and community were extremely supportive. They held a candlelight vigle, a demonstration on the courthouse steps, and gave us a huge amount of money for our defence fund. My friends were really wonderful, as well. They were brave and strong and really helped me through a lot of rough times.

I didn’t realize until I saw Century that I had been wanting to get this story out into the world since I was 8 years old. I wanted to be in this project not because I want people to pitty me, but because I want people to see how stupid it was for my mother and many others to be prosecuted. Look at my picture. Do I look abused to you? Or do I look like a happy child with wonderful parents whose only “abuse” has come from those who have tried to take away our right to live the way we do.

For me, my naked bodie is normal; for me, my naked body is wild and free; for me, my naked bodie is being proud for who and what I am.”

Nora

Interesting quote. I would post the picture that went along with it, but I don't want to get banned.

 

[Newbian]

Interesting quote. I would post the picture that went along with it, but I don't want to get banned.

The first picture of the baby crowning was a nice welcome to the party.

 

[shortylickens]

People uncomfortable with nudity should have grown up in a society that doesnt think backwards.
I did grow up in such a society and I was still able to overcome such stupidity.

WTH?