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Brooke's mother, Teri Shields, was paid $450 for the photo shoot, which was for a publication owned by Playboy.
In 1981, a US Court ruled the images as not pornographic.
Imagine the reaction today to such a shoot.
Brooke's mother, Teri Shields, was paid $450 for the photo shoot, which was for a publication owned by Playboy.
In 1981, a US Court ruled the images as not pornographic.
Imagine the reaction today to such a shoot.
It's really only been 15 years.Uhuh. Things change in 35 years. Mostly for the better. Imagine that.
The story, nevertheless, had an unexpected development. In 1992, a contemporary artist called Richard Prince approached Gross about buying the rights to use and reproduce the image of Brooke Shields. In his artistic work, Prince appropriates pictures by rephotographing them, recontextualizing them and giving them a title. The picture of Brooke Shields, for example, is entitled Spiritual America. Gross was willing to retrocede his rights to Prince for a series of ten prints. Prince became a star of the contemporary art scene and his picture was sold at Christies in 1999 for $151,000.