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'''Location:''' Montgomery, Alabama, USA | '''Location:''' Montgomery, Alabama, USA | ||
'''Description of Artwork:''' Blake Dews’ photographs include both male and female nudity. Some of the | '''Description of Artwork:''' Blake Dews’ photographs include both male and female nudity. Some of the most controversial photographs displayed male full frontal nudity. Dews’ work contained nude photographs of males and females, but they were not pictured together nor were they engaged in or simulating sexual acts. <P> | ||
'''The Incident:''' Dews’ photography, including the pieces in question, was continually reviewed by his professors and classmates as he produced it. He received an “A” for his work and, after the work was hung for a University exhibit, his professor expressed pleasure at the work. When the exhibit opened around Thanksgiving 2003, a warning was placed outside the exhibit indicating that the show contained some nudity. Before the Christmas holidays, Dews was told that the university’s lawyers had told his professor the pictures might be in violation of state obscenity laws. Prior to the spring semester, Dews was asked to remove his work. When he arrived, he found some of the pictures had already been removed from the exhibition. <P> | '''The Incident:''' Dews’ photography, including the pieces in question, was continually reviewed by his professors and classmates as he produced it. He received an “A” for his work and, after the work was hung for a University exhibit, his professor expressed pleasure at the work. When the exhibit opened around Thanksgiving 2003, a warning was placed outside the exhibit indicating that the show contained some nudity. Before the Christmas holidays, Dews was told that the university’s lawyers had told his professor the pictures might be in violation of state obscenity laws. Prior to the spring semester, Dews was asked to remove his work. When he arrived, he found some of the pictures had already been removed from the exhibition. <P> | ||