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Nan Goldins Klara and Edda Belly Dancing photo is stirring up controversy in London, because Elton John owns the photo and police in England think it is inappropriate material - aka child porn. The truth is that the photo shown above has been exhibited at major international art exhibits with absolutely no problem. It’s art and sometime art is provocative.
Quoted from mrwavetheory.blogspot.com

Visit Mr. Wave Theory’s blog to see Nan Goldin’s famous photo or “inappropriate material”.

Here’s Elton John’s statement:

September 25, 2007
Photographic Exhibition
The Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art, Newcastle, England.
By PRESS RELEASE
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.

Elton John is known as one of the world’s foremost collectors of photographic art and has several thousand photographs in his collection, including works by Man Ray, Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Diane Arbus and Ansel Adams.

Elton John purchased the “Thanksgiving” installation from the White Cube gallery in London (contact: Deirdre Cott. + 44 (0)20 7930 5373) in 1999, and the installation is presently on loan to The Baltic Centre For Contemporary Art in Newcastle.
Quoted from eltonjohn.com

What do you see in the picture below?


Via frenblog.com

It’s called Dolphin Illusion. A research shown that children see only dolphins not what you saw! Because they don’t have the information or “basic instincts” you have that shaping your reality. Their world is different. I always remember this: I shape my reality. Things that I accept as concrete reality are simply my creations. When I look at a beautiful scenery, I create all that beautiful colors and shapes on stimulations, in computer language, “the thing” that I watch as beautiful scenery is an output based on input. Don’t take me wrong, there’s a “real thing” (noone knows what is it) stimulates my senses but reality is my creation based on that. So…

Who creates the reality of Nan Goldin’s Klara and Edda Belly Dancing Photo is art or not? Tip: Use a mirror.