The Finest Line
Ms. Naughty’s post about Bill Henson’s controversial photographs of adolescence poses an interesting question about using cultural standards of obscenity to gauge the value of art:
…”what I think Henson is trying to express with his work is that 12 year old girls aren’t “innocent kids” in the simplistic sense (I was a 12 year old girl once and believe me, no way was I sexually innocent). They’re at a cusp of flowering sexuality… and they’re also dealing with physical changes that aren’t necessarily sexual. It’s a difficult time when they’re really self conscious about their bodies.
Surely that’s worth capturing in art?”
Is it or is it not?
(via trixie)