Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Many photographs of children appear in print. How about Sear's catalogues showing children modeling clothing? They surely didn't give their informed consent. The only difference in Sally Mann's case is that her photographs were of her children nude. I guess for certain people, coming from certain backgrounds, it is a big difference. Dan C. At 04:54 PM 26-06-00 -0400, you wrote: >Whether or not they are suffering ill effects is not the question....the >question is whether or not they were taken advantage of....and there, I >would argue, the answer is incredibly obvious...But asking them is pretty >meaningless...it's like asking the prisoner, in the "old days," who >participated in a medical experiment to get time off his sentence, whether >he felt coerced...Hell, no, he'd say...but viewed from afar, he was the >victim of coercion.... > >