Indeed, his photographs are devoid of exploitive or negative characteristics. Once again his work was ultimately found to be innocent of all pornographic content or intent. Three years later his work was assailed again by an organized attack by extremist activists from American Christian communities who besieged bookshops aiming to seize and destroy his books. The investigation that ensued lasted two years at the end of which all his images and equipment were returned and no charges brought. The young age of some of his models drew the attention of a conservative federal task force that raided his studio and seized his files and equipment. The photographer’s initial rise to fame was burdened by controversy. Jock Sturges is famous for his series of families taken at communes in Northern California and in naturist resorts in France. The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography presents an exhibition of one of the more celebrated and controversial photographers of the last decades, Jock Sturges. “One of the most important elements in my work is an absence: the absence of shame”.
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