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In 1975, a ten year-old Brooke Shields stood for a portrait from photographer Gary Gross. Urged by a mother eager to make her daughter a star, Shields posed naked in a bathtub, oiled and done up in make-up. Shortly thereafter the family signed away the picture’s rights to Gross. Since then the photo has been at the center of over three decade’s worth of controversy and dispute.
Artist Richard Prince’s picture – which is a photograph of a 1975 photograph shot by Garry Gross with the permission of the actress’ mother, Teri Shields – raised concerns after some deemed it pornographic. The image shows a young Shields wearing heavy makeup and standing nude in a bathtub.
Shields has previously spoken about her how she was sexualized as a young rising star, having posed nude for photographer Gary Gross when she was aged just 10. The images appeared in



















