Young Brooke Shields photo creates a stir
A young but clothed Brooke Shields
Actress Brooke Shields’ nude photograph, which will go on display at the Tate Modern in London, has caused some controversy.
Children campaigners have branded the photograph a “magnet” for pedophiles as it shows the actress standing in a bathtub naked when she was only 10-years-old, with a heavily-made up face and an oiled torso.
The image is by Richard Prince is the centerpiece of the Pop Life: Art In A Material World exhibition at Tate.
Prince’s work is actually a photograph of a phtograph. The original was taken by Garry Gross, a U.S. photographer, in 1975. It was commissioned by Shields’ mother for her first film starring role age 12 where she played a child prostitute in Louise Malle’s Pretty Baby.
Children’s campaigners reacted with dismay to the exhibition, saying it borders on child pornography and is “certainly not art.’’
The police are aware of the exhibition’s content and said they will consider any complaint by the public.