Hi Tony,
I read Miranda fairly often, but only if I'm in good humour. I thought I was yesterday morning but it didn't turn out that way. I'm still waiting for her to reply to my email...
In my view the work is not at all sexual (thanks to the outrage and digust of channel 9 I was able to view them on national television at 7:30am this morning). Having said that there is an element of exploitation involved in my view and I wonder whether the kids were able to consent to their images later being embroilled in controversy and labelled pronographic (the law says they can't make that decision themselves). If I was their parents this possibility would have crossed my mind even if I don't agree with the rabid right.
P.S. poll in the 'Herald today showed more than half of people thought that they were "art", ~21% thought there shoud be prosecution. A moral minority on a witch hunt.
Matt.
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Originally Posted by Tony Egan  Per the ABC news tonight the opening has been cancelled due to claims of child pornography on exhibition with police examining the images on the Roslyn Oxley gallery web site. The gallery web site appears to be down as I write this. In the Sydney Morning Herald today it seemed arch-conservative columnist Miranda Devine may have been on the soapbox about this. (I never read her articles on principle but the mention of a photographer caught my eye) I assume some of Miranda's fans rang the authorities full of righteous indignation and the cops were brought in?
I'm a bit on the fence when it comes to Bill Henson's work. Some work I find very beautiful and compelling, others a bit disturbing and discomforting. |