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Though al-Faiz is well known and admired, her appointment also reveals the limits to the changes under way in Saudi Arabia. Al-Faiz meets with her male colleagues only by videophone, asks her minister for permission to appear on television, declined to be photographed for this story and vented her frustration to the press when what appeared to be an old passport-style photograph of her (without a niqab) appeared on the Internet. Al-Faiz told TIME that she brings no special mandate beyond improving education for girls. "I don't like quick action," she says. "I'll have...
...hits its mark. None of Olive's fairy tales could have foretold one son's ending: "He was dead by the time he was found by the stretcher-bearers, so they took his identity-tag, and looked in his bloody pockets for letters or photos - there was a publicity photograph of Olive, looking wise and gentle. Then they left...
...show, titled "Pop Life," includes lots of explicitly sexual images, including large-scale photographs of Jeff Koons having sex with his ex-wife Cicciolina, a porn star turned Italian politician. But it was the decision to display the Shields photograph, which the museum had set up in its own room, that drew the most attention from British press before the show opened. It certainly offended Michele Elliott, founder of Kidscape, which campaigns against child abuse in the U.K. "What I see is an indecent photograph of a child being used to bring people into an exhibition," says Elliott, who filed...
...photograph of Shields, taken in 1975 with the consent of Shields' mother, is by New York-based photographer Garry Gross. Gross told the Daily Telegraph he was disappointed that the photo was taken down and did not consider it pornographic, though "she was supposed to look like a sexy woman." The image removed from the Tate is actually a photo of that photo: in 1983, artist Richard Prince took a photograph of Gross's original photo, framed it, and titled it Spiritual America. And though it hasn't been censored before, it's not the first time it has stirred...
...British authorities seem to be increasingly cautious when it comes to photographs of kids. Two years ago, police seized a photograph by Nan Goldin of two young girls belly dancing in the nude. The work, which six years earlier had been judged decent by the Crown Prosecution Service, was part of a set owned by Elton John and was on display in a northeastern England gallery. The CPS once again cleared the image, saying that standards of propriety had not changed significantly since its last judgment. (Read "Elton John Rock's Captain Fantastic...