At the Edge of the World

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The indefatigable artist has been the subject of exhibitions at the world’s most prestigious institutions, from the Museum of Modern Art and Centre Pompidou to the Stedelijk Museum and Tate Modern.

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In the early 1990s, photographer Sally Mann transformed one of the most banal elements of family life—the sentimental photo album—into discomfiting, divisive, and ultimately unforgettable artwork.

Here, however, they censored the photograph by placing black bars over her eyes, nipples, and vagina.

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The shots revealed their beauty, the girls voluntarily and without embarrassment posed for the photographer. Former Northfield Mount Hermon teacher John 'Jock' Sturges, 74, was sentenced to three years of probation this week after pleading guilty in Franklin Superior Court to a charge of an unnatural and lascivious act on a child under 16, according to a statement Tuesday from the Northwestern district attorney's office. The work of art shown in this book is of family relationships and individual awareness of each other and one's self.Light surface rub to edges of jacket and boards, very light crease to rear end-paper otherwise bright and unmarked. His published works include Jock Sturges, Scalo, Zurich, 1996, published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt and another Scalo monograph entitled Jock Sturges New Work 1996 2000 was published in October, 2000. His subjects, often young boys and girls on the cusp of adulthood, exude a sense of innocence and vulnerability. Sturges initially made his mark in the world of photography with black and white images, particularly in his series “The Last Day of Summer.