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In 2021, Sturges pled guilty in Franklin County (MA) Superior Court to an unnatural and lascivious act with a child under 16 when he was a dorm head at the Northfield Mount Hermon School in the mid-1970s. Hamilton's photography of naked children is not singular and similar types of portrait have suffered similar types of criticism; examples of which can be seen in the works of Sally Mann and Jock Sturges, to name a few. We're all born naked, and images of nude people of all ages have been part of culture since ancient times. Many of them are families with whom he has deep ties and whom he photographs as they are, clothed or nude, revealing the iconography of family affection. He graduated with a BFA in Perceptual psychology and Photography from Marlboro College and received an MFA in photography from the San Francisco Art Institute.

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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. In 1990 the Federal Bureau of Investigation entered Jock Sturges`s San Francisco studio and seized his work, implying violation of child pornography laws. The young age of some of his models drew the attention of a conservative federal task force that raided his studio and seized his files and equipment. He is deeply involved with the lives of his models and has known most of them and their families for decades.

His genius and purpose has been a source of inspiration for many fashion photographers today but none of them have managed to reach such thrilling qualities. His photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

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Also the owner ship of the image or the storage of the image can bring down the wrath of the Justice Department. One thing that is a key sign is that several of the girls DO NOT look happy, like they don't even want to be doing it.It was a revelation and I saw nothing crude, pornographic or vulgar in his images, only compelling and intensely moving portraits in caressing pools of light. For a long time, many decades, I refused to believe that what I thought I wanted when I was 14 turned out to be a protracted form of sexual abuse and exploitation,” she said. Sturges was 28 and a photography instructor at the school when he met the girl in 1975, prosecutors said.

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It is my ambition to work with the nude in a natural setting where location and the lack of costume work to obscure the date, the era, time itself. Any image of any naked child was subject to DoJ review, some would be ok some not, but who wants a money making server confiscated for that review?Sturges responded to the indictment labelling the books as "obscene material containing visual reproduction of persons under 17 years of age involved in obscene acts" by stating "This is pretty chilling language because, in fact, the people in my pictures are not engaged in any acts at all. With The Last Day of Summer, Aperture accords to Jock Sturges`s humane and lovely vision the dignity and respect it so richly deserves.