Re: Is Child Porn In the Eye of the Beholder?

On Apr 28, 9:12=A0pm, Anna <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yeah, that was a long post but I always recommend to follow the links
> because they are easier to read and in this case there's a comment
> section at the end of the original article that you can post to as
> well as here.
>
> http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2011/04/is_child_porn_in_the...
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3e8lv3q

Have your heard of the Polixeni Papapetrou photographs of her six-year-
old daughter Olympia Nelson?  She was recreating a series of
photographs of young girls taken by "Alice in Wonderland" author Lewis
Carroll, and using Olympia as the model.  The series of photographs
can be found here...

http://moicani.over-blog.com/article-polixeni-papapetrou-ou-a-la-maniere-de=
-lewis-carroll-53075053.html

Naturally, controversy arose over the depiction of Olympia as
Carroll's "Beatrice Hatch before White Cliffs."  Here was a modern
photograph of a nude six-year-old girl.  How shocking!!!! Never mind
the fact that you can't really see anything in the picture anyway (and
even if you could, I say, so what?).  It was put on the cover of Art
Monthy Australia.  There is a video of a news report of the issue on
YouTube ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DNjVRxlak0lI ) made when
Olympia was eleven years old, and surely old enough to understand the
issue.  She is clearly very proud of her mother, and the image of her
nude younger self!  What's the problem here?

For more discussion of the incident, check out another website,
http://www.sauer-thompson.com/junkforcode/archives/2008/07/art-making-a-po.=
html

Erica