of nude photograph of brooke shields aged 10 removed from tate exhibition

Nude photograph of Brooke Shields aged 10 removed from Tate exhibition: A nude photograph of the actress Brooke Shields aged 10 has been removed from a Tate Modern exhibition on police advice. The exhibition, by US artist Richard Prince, showed a naked picture of Brooke Shields, taken when she was 10, naked from the knees up. The photo was one of the few photos taken by Gary Gross in 1976 of the kid actress posing naked, after consent was given by Brooke Shields' mother.


Brooke Shields posing as a kid in a Gary Gross photoshoot.

A nude photograph of the actress Brooke Shields aged 10 (NSFW. 5th July post) has been removed from a Tate Modern exhibition on police advice.

The room containing the work in question, Spiritual America, by the US artist Richard Prince, was closed yesterday and the exhibition catalogue has also been withdrawn in what the gallery said was a temporary measure.

The image shows the child from the knees up, naked, looking at the viewer. The room at the London gallery had a notice on the door saying that visitors may find the image “challenging”. The rest of the exhibition, Pop Life: Art in a Material World, remains open.

Prince made his name by rephotographing the work of others as a statement about authenticity and copyright. The 1983 Spiritual America is a photograph of the original, which had been taken in 1976 by Gary Gross.

Gross took the picture with the permission of the child star’s mother, who was paid for the images by Gross’s partners in the project, Playboy Press.