Педофилы и ведьмы
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a_kleberМежду прочим, покопав тему предыдущего поста (про английского художника, арестованного за якобы педофилическое искусство), обнаружила, что эта история началась аж в 1993 году. И уже тогда лондонские галлерейщики и художники вступили в неравный бой с некультурной полицией и сформированным сенсационным телевидением общественным мнением:
«Early in the morning of Wednesday 10 March 1993, officers from the Obscene Publications Squad of the Metropolitan Police burst into a house in Liskeard, Cornwall, which they believed to be at the centre of a child pornography ring. They came away with one suspect, 28 boxes of negatives, 67 videos and a large quantity of photographs. Losing little time, they announced that they had 'smashed' an extensive paedophile ring which involved hundreds of children and had been carefully built up over 20 years.
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'I'm going to be showing the stupidity of it all,' says Nicky Akehurst, owner of the London gallery putting on the exhibition. 'The art world is tackling this issue head on.' (A petition signed by Sir Hugh Casson, Laurie Lee, Peter Blake and Lucinda Lambton was important in persuading the police to return the photographs.) 'But it needs to be addressed by politicians and the public generally. That's what I'm trying to do. We'll show a few of Graham's nudes, but apart from those it will be what the police took.'
What they took was part of the extensive collection of Victorian photographs that Ovenden and his wife have assembled over the past 20 years. Ovenden is a world-recognised authority on the genre and has written books on the photographic work of Lewis Carroll, D O Hill, Robert Adamson and Lewis Hine. His Pre-Raphaelite Photographers is the classic work on the subject, displaying his consummate knowledge of the work of such as D G Rossetti and Julia Margaret Cameron. It was through his study of these artists that Ovenden found the inspiration for the painted and photographic portraits of girls with which he has made his name.»
Арестовали за Льюиса Кэрролла, одним словом. Весьма похоже на историю с богохульскими выставками в Москве. Охота на ведьм в натуре.
«Early in the morning of Wednesday 10 March 1993, officers from the Obscene Publications Squad of the Metropolitan Police burst into a house in Liskeard, Cornwall, which they believed to be at the centre of a child pornography ring. They came away with one suspect, 28 boxes of negatives, 67 videos and a large quantity of photographs. Losing little time, they announced that they had 'smashed' an extensive paedophile ring which involved hundreds of children and had been carefully built up over 20 years.
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'I'm going to be showing the stupidity of it all,' says Nicky Akehurst, owner of the London gallery putting on the exhibition. 'The art world is tackling this issue head on.' (A petition signed by Sir Hugh Casson, Laurie Lee, Peter Blake and Lucinda Lambton was important in persuading the police to return the photographs.) 'But it needs to be addressed by politicians and the public generally. That's what I'm trying to do. We'll show a few of Graham's nudes, but apart from those it will be what the police took.'
What they took was part of the extensive collection of Victorian photographs that Ovenden and his wife have assembled over the past 20 years. Ovenden is a world-recognised authority on the genre and has written books on the photographic work of Lewis Carroll, D O Hill, Robert Adamson and Lewis Hine. His Pre-Raphaelite Photographers is the classic work on the subject, displaying his consummate knowledge of the work of such as D G Rossetti and Julia Margaret Cameron. It was through his study of these artists that Ovenden found the inspiration for the painted and photographic portraits of girls with which he has made his name.»
Арестовали за Льюиса Кэрролла, одним словом. Весьма похоже на историю с богохульскими выставками в Москве. Охота на ведьм в натуре.
