 when sick people will take family pictures off personal blogs and web sites to exploit…
Sharing this image needs to be reconsidered.
Rosh
I use models for a lot of work, But to me anyone who needs to use a child
to earn a living should not be in the art world. For over thirty years,I have photographed anything and
everything,But never used a naked child(never will)and called it art.
This dude is sick and should be in jail.
Ps some black spots would be good on exhibit A
i will keep maurwe’s comment to remind me to stay out of australia
I like the photo, it’s real art.
Please do not remove it from site.
If someone’s offended, it’s his own problem. Only real perverts treats art like porno… Most pedophiles fights for public moral to cover their dirty thoughts.
Well just an update for all who haven’t heard the news yet, for all of you who supported art and all those who vilify it; the official verdict is in:
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2.In addition Police stated that they would NOT be prosecuting Bill Henson over his photographs “We looked at the possibility of breaches to the Crimes Act. The advice given to us is that a successful prosecution was unlikely… Matters involving the law and art are notoriously difficult…”
HA! VICTORY! Sorry, but what more do you critics with pitchforks want? Not pornography, considered PG. So please take those ridiculous stickers off that beautiful work of ART.
Now that looks really rude!
I’ll take the stickers off if you deal with the nutters and fanatics for me Fiona
I havent had any personal attacks or emails about the Henson picture since I covered her up and that’s the way I would like it to remain.
I don’t have time to save the world or change how people think. I just want to live my life and let others live theirs.
Dion
laughing at dion … “let others live theirs” … how you can tell the different levels of people, more highly developed think like you do, lesser developed want you to live like they do …
spiral dynamics, look it up, a good metaphor
i fell in love with the paintings of brett whiteley, now that was a tolerant guy
enjoy. glad you got some blog action
This is stupid.
I see nothing wrong with this. It is art. Pornography is explicit…this is obviously not particularly explicit. This is the human body, which people…especially in America, seem to be deathly afraid of. As long as there was consent from the girl, I don’t see what’s so wrong.
I am not a pedophile, I happen to be a 13 year old girl as well.
Yes, it is against the law…and I think it should be against the law…Argh, I guess things would be different if people didn’t abuse their rights to take artful images of naked underage kids in the first place.
So…I don’t know how I would solve this case.
I’ll look into Spiral Dynamics Gregory. I have heard the term while reading about Ken Wilber.. Im not sure if he talks about spiral dynamics but I have been meaning to grab a book or two by him.
I love the thoughtfulness of the comments. I read some excellent advice and some righteous philosophical insight.
I agree with the people who describe the photograph as beautiful and innocent and those who intimate this is an Adam and Eve before-the-fall thing, in that the porn aspect is generated within the eye of the beholder.
I wish you would remove the blue-green discs. Now they seem pornographic!
I don’t like the photo being covered up either Joyce, but it’s easier for me this way. People stopped contacting me about the image after I covered it up, so I’m not about to provoke them into firing up their poison pens again.
Naked young girls make some people crazy and I have to respect that(or at least react to it), especially if theyre sending their craziness my way.
Life is too short to be dealing with people that have too much spare time on their hands.
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She’s an alleged sex abuse victim (at the time), and folks are publishing her photo. The police were in the middle of an investigation.
(nice one Australia, that’s a first, even third world countries don’t do that)
Not sexualized? Apart from the fact that the artist in question is has a child porn fetish going back years, other than that, I can’t imagine why it can’t be family viewing.
It’s child pornography elsewhere though, Bill’s been banned from lots of galleries because of his kiddie art fetish. Even some of the galleries on Alison Croggon’s list are shy of continuing the relationship.
Can you guess why, because he simply can’t stop the kiddie stuff, people have asked him, chided him, he just can’t stop, he’s addicted to his child porn freak show.
To Anonymous
You are based in a country where your president thinks the verdict is still out on evolution? Enough said.
Anon & Anon, play nice and stick to the topic or I’ll delete your comments.
HOlY Beeep!
How could you guys not think that this is porn!
This photo hass porn written all over for gods sake!
I mean its alright i guess if you take a photo of a grown women nude…
But not a thirteen year old girl!!!
I mean actually taking the photo is bad enough and then they hang it in a gallerry!
Whoever took this photo has a sirious problem!
Only filthy minds can see filth in art, said Egon Schiele. And I think the same. Some would have imprisoned even Nabokov and burn all copies of “Lolita”. And though “Lolita” remains what has always been, one of the most accomplished piece of literature.
The problem is that the photo on display here may be only the tip of the iceburg! I believe there are others with girls sitting with legs open and another posing with menstral blood on running down her leg. If this stuff is considered “ART” and gets hung in state and national galleries, I want my tax dollars withdrawn from their funding.
This person was not hurt and the picture is lovely. I have seen child porn and this aint it.
She is soooooooooooooo cute
how does this fare compared to the work of david hamilton (et consorts)?
I guess they would both have to deal with similar issues Julien.
The way many people say this is an artistic photo and only some people view it the wrong way, reminds me of the inventors and scientists in 1980′s cartoons like transformers and g.i. joe.
“we invented this: machine that projects a huge beam of energy, giant robot ninja, unstoppable super tank, to help man kind, how could we know that Cobra, the Decepticons, Mummra, would steal it and use it for evil.
USE YOUR HEAD! everything WILL BE used wrong by someone. I would Bet money that there are pedophiles watching sesame street so this is just a thirty store tall “dinner bell” for those sick freaks.
That’s the point that some people are making Anon; should we ban Sesame Street just because paedophiles watch it too?
Should we ban art that uses kids?
Maybe we should cover them with a blanket everytime they leave the house too, because there’s plenty of sick people in public.
Where do we draw the line?
It is a topic that has to be talked about though as it is our job as adults to protect children.
Those of you who do not make your livelihoods as artists are off of the mark with regard to this image. A nude alone does not constitute that piece being art and simply because the image evokes or emotes a response make it pornography. Not everything we view is art – in fact some of our most celebrated “artists” take for instance Damian Hurst, do not make art but rather schlock. A genuine piece of art measurably and substantially changes some or many aspects of another human beings life upon their viewing of the work. It seems as if a 13 year old girl can emote a response out of many invoking the “Its pornography!” response. In cultures other than Western there is a distinct difference between how the human body and its nakedness impact the family unit and the individuals therein. Japan for instance highly regards the human form and a very large part of but private family practice revolves around the onsen – or the bath. It is a beautiful culture which involves cleanliness, health, exercise, and even relaxation and de-stressing after and during the bath. The Japanese and their outlook on being unclothed is on the contrary, the opposite way of how many westerners respond to nakedness! Nakedness actually is everything to be respected, admired, appreciated and even a touch of thankfulness for the opportunity of being alive – all these are intrinsic values and not any of them focus on the outwared and so-called “nudity.” We westerners are plagued with viewing much nudity in our lives and confuse that with nakedness – Nudity for the most part is like another form of clothing put on or not put on to entice, to seduce to tease. Take