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by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in a bizarre witch-hunt
* at an expense to the taxpayers of over a million dollars, Sturges had * survived an attempt to destroy his life and his work and was now * countersuing the agency. * * Recapitulated briefly, Sturges, who's based in San Francisco, has for * years been photographing young people whose families practice nudity. * * He's done so with his subjects' permission, as well as that of their * parents, who often appear in the photographs along with their offspring. * Rejecting the use of standard model releases, with their blanket * permissions, the photographer chooses instead to request approval * from his subjects for each and every exhibition and publication * of each and every image --- an exemplary scrupulousness. * * Then, in 1990, alerted to the "questionable" content of some of his * images by a local processing lab, the FBI arrested Joe Semien, Sturge's * assistant, invaded the photographer's San Francisco studio without a * warrant, and seized all his prints, negatives, records, and equipment; * thereafter, without arresting Sturges, or even c |
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