Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Nan Goldin "Art Porn" Update

Elton John issued a statement today confirming his ownership of the Nan Goldin photo seized by police.
The photograph entitled "Klara and Edda belly-dancing" (1998) is one of 149 images comprising the "Thanksgiving" installation by renowned US photographer Nan Goldin.

The photograph exists as part of the installation as a whole and has been widely published and exhibited throughout the world. It can be found in the monograph of Ms Goldin's works entitled "The Devil's Playground" (Phaidon, 2003), has been offered for sale at Sotheby's New York in 2002 and 2004, and has previously been exhibited in Houston, London, Madrid, New York, Portugal, Warsaw and Zurich without any objections of which we are aware.
In my mind the picture in question in not even close to being sexual in a Jock Sturges or Sally Mann kind of way. I guess people see the sexuality they want to see.
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