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He asked how Mr. Foo and Kiki were doing and I told him about one of Mr. Foo\\u2019s projects\\u2026 making a neon version of a certain famous disturbing image on the Internet.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"He launched into a little bit of a rant on how too many beginner artists immediately decide that they want to be provocative by trying to shock their viewers because that\\u2019s the only way that they know of to elicit a response from their viewers.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I talked with him and tried to convince him that no, Mr. Foo wasn\\u2019t doing this as a piece of art, but more directly just as a way to shock people and mess with their heads. When Mr. Foo makes art, it\\u2019s beautiful and thought provoking on a gentler and more sophisticated level.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"I was reminded of this by Thomas Hawk\\u2019s latest arch nemesis, \", mdx(\"a\", {\n    parentName: \"p\",\n    \"href\": \"http://thomashawk.com/2006/07/jill-greenbergs-husband-robert-green.html\"\n  }, \"Jill Greenberg\"), \" and her gallery. See, here, we\\u2019ve got exactly what my old mentor was talking about. Between Maplehtorpe and Sally Mann and Jock Sturges, there\\u2019s really only so many ways left that nudity can be made shocking that haven\\u2019t been explored already.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Jill Greenberg is taking kids, all of them younger than three, stripping them, and then tormenting them to provoke a response from them. She calls it some sort of protest art against the Bush administration.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"And, in this, we have a great example of somebody who is incapable of making a statement resorting to shock value to try and gain popularity. I\\u2019m sure the first thing in their mind while ratcheting up the pressure on Thomas isn\\u2019t that they want to actually discredit or silence him, but simply to get him to write further on the subject, to get their own particular variety of artistic fame.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"Remember, \", mdx(\"a\", {\n    parentName: \"p\",\n    \"href\": \"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_Cures_%22They%22_Don't_Want_You_To_Know_About\"\n  }, \"claiming that \\u201Cthey\\u201D don\\u2019t want you to know about something is a potent marketing tool\"), \". People have made billions that way.\"), mdx(\"p\", null, \"The problem is that things like this are ways for Jill (and, for that matter American Photo) to get cheap publicity at the expense of others, including people she purports to be or support. She continues the demonization of the modern artist by the average person. If I tell people that I do art photography, will they assume that I photograph screaming naked babies? I already worry if the day will come that my art is declared pornographic, will I have to worry about people cordoning off their children lest I take pictures of them? 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