Over an eight-month period as many as 40 demonstrations and incidents occurred at book stores stocking the three books. Then talk-show host Randall Terry has been credited with causing the prosecution, as well as protests, after he encouraged his listeners to locate prosecutors interested in taking the case. In 1998 Barnes & Noble was indicted on child pornography charges in the US states of Alabama and Tennessee for selling The Last Day of Summer and Radiant Identities by Sturges, as well as The Age of Innocence by David Hamilton.
The result of this long-term, communal effort is one of the most clear-eyed, responsible investigations of puberty and the emergence of sexuality in the medium's history, making a metaphor of the metamorphosis from child to adult." Attempted censorship His struggle is to observe and render his subjects in all of their complexities, trembling on the cusp of change. Coleman gave a favourable review of the book in The New York Observer, stating: "Sturges sustains a delicate balance on a very precarious wire. Many photos were taken at nude beaches in France, including the image on the front cover, which is of a girl named Marine, who would later also appear on the cover of Sturges 2000 book, Jock Sturges: New Work 1996–2000. The book is Sturges' first and consists of 60 black-and-white images of both children and adults, many of which show nudity. Today, his works are held in the collection of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and he is the recipient of numerous honors, such as the Gold Lion from the Cannes International Film Festival.The Last Day of Summer is a 1991 photography book by Jock Sturges. Dweck currently lives and works in New York, NY. In 2012, the artist became the first American contemporary artist to have solo exhibition in Cuba since the United States embargo in 1958. (2004), a sensitive portrait of an isolated fishing community. Dweck’s Long Island residence often serves as backdrop for his shoots and was the subject of his photo book The End: Montauk, N.Y. The bold eroticism of his nude photographs in Mermaids (2008), is at times reminiscent of Jock Sturges’s beachscapes. Long Island’s beaches and surf culture serve as inspiration for his photographs, which strive to evoke nostalgia. Born on Septemin Brooklyn, NY, Dweck was raised on Long Island and went on to receive his BFA from the Pratt Institute. “I think the art endures because it represents an idealized sense of place, and reinforces the idea that memory-individual or communal-can make place timeless,” he said of photography.
Though perhaps best known for his sensuous images of the female form, Dweck's practice focuses on examining the nature of identity within society. Michael Dweck is a contemporary American photographer and filmmaker.
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