I brought up the Vietnam war picture but it sure wasn't as support of this "artists" trash.
The war picture was real & is still as confronting today as it was then. It is not art, it is truth. It jolts every day people, remote from the theatre of war, into confronting the reality of what governments rain down on other innocent bystanders in their power quests.
These photos of naked children are posed, contrived. There is no spontaneity (innocence) what so ever & are produced to send the message the photography wants heard. We are yet to hear from the artist exactly what the intended message is.
Clearly, the negative reaction by a significant number of the population to these images is saying that they are revolted and tired by the ever increasing comercialisation of our children & want a line drawn in the sand.
If this is a watershed moment in halting the theft of childhood, then perhaps we should be grateful to Henson for providing the straw that broke the camel's back.
