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Jock Sturges

(American, born 1947)
Jock Sturges is an American photographer known for his large-format portraits of nude adolescents. His black-and-white prints capture subjects on nudist beaches in the United States and France. Much like Sally Mann, the controversial nature of his imagery has raised concerns from the public throughout his career. Despite this, Sturges has continued to photograph his subjects—often alongside their families—over the course of several years. “My hope is that my work is in some way counter-pinup,” the artist said of his work. “A pinup asks you to suspend interest in who the person is and occupy yourself entirely with looking at the body, fantasizing about what you could do with that body, completely ignoring how the...