SALLY MANN PHOTOS SEIZED FROM TEXAS MUSEUM FOLLOWING OFFICIAL COMPLAINT [View all]

A group of works by renowned photographer Sally Mann that appear in a group show at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth have drawn the ire of local officials, who allege that they are harmful to children. The contested photos, on view in the exhibition “Diaries of Home,” depict children in the nude and are exemplary of the intimate, stylized portraits of her own children that gained Mann wide acclaim in the 1980s and ’90s, even while they sparked controversy. The Dallas Express reports that a warrant was issued and the works “secured as potential evidence” by Fort Worth police after Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare filed a complaint demanding a criminal investigation.

Mann is one of thirteen artists whose work is on view in the documentary exhibition, which “features works by women and nonbinary artists, who explore the multilayered concepts of family, community, and home.” Though the museum on its website warns that the exhibition includes “mature themes that may be sensitive for some viewers,” some visitors took issue with the images, one of which shows an unclothed girl standing on a picnic table and another a frontal view of a boy’s naked body, complaining to the Express that they represented “pedophilia” and “child rape.”

A group of works by renowned photographer Sally Mann that appear in a group show at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth have drawn the ire of local officials, who allege that they are harmful to children. The contested photos, on view in the exhibition “Diaries of Home,” depict children in the nude and are exemplary of the intimate, stylized portraits of her own children that gained Mann wide acclaim in the 1980s and ’90s, even while they sparked controversy. The Dallas Express reports that a warrant was issued and the works “secured as potential evidence” by Fort Worth police after Tarrant County Judge Tim O’Hare filed a complaint demanding a criminal investigation.

Mann is one of thirteen artists whose work is on view in the documentary exhibition, which “features works by women and nonbinary artists, who explore the multilayered concepts of family, community, and home.” Though the museum on its website warns that the exhibition includes “mature themes that may be sensitive for some viewers,” some visitors took issue with the images, one of which shows an unclothed girl standing on a picnic table and another a frontal view of a boy’s naked body, complaining to the Express that they represented “pedophilia” and “child rape.”

https://www.artforum.com/news/sally-mann-photos-seized-texas-museum-following-official-complaint-1234725314/

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