I smell controversy....take a load of these...
Lots of talk over these photographs about if it's "ART" or "Exploitation" ?
You be the judge...I'm not saying anything...If I judge these I would have to Judge Jill Greenberg's work as well. WE are so touchy when it comes to kids in America, but we turn the blind eye at the underage prostitution going on in our own Damn country.
Susan Anderson’s documentary portrait series, High Glitz, is shot on location at several of America’s child beauty pageants. Setting up her studio amidst the colorful spectacle, she captures the young girls at the height of their performance. Hours of preparation are spent on each child's appearance, and her camera records it all in graphic detail. Children’s pageants are a fascinating subculture, but more than anything they represent a strange microcosm of America itself. Our own values of beauty, success and glamour reflected in the dreams of thousands of young girls… Anderson is a Los Angeles-based fine art, commercial, and editorial photographer specializing in portraiture, beauty, fashion, and conceptual work. After earning her BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, Anderson relocated to Los Angeles in 2001. Her editorial portrait and fashion work has appeared in a variety of magazines including, Los Angeles, People, Glamour, The Robb Report and Playboy. Her fine art work is represented by TORCH Gallery in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Kopeikin Gallery in Los Angeles, California.
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