Madame Nell agrees only after he offers to pay.īellocq becomes a fixture in the brothel, photographing the prostitutes, mostly Hattie. He asks to be allowed to take photographs of the women. Bellocq comes with his camera, Hattie and Violet are the only people awake. Hattie has given birth to a baby boy and has a 12-year-old daughter, Violet, who lives in the house. In 1917 (during the last months of legal prostitution in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, Louisiana), Hattie is a prostitute working at an elegant brothel run by the elderly, cocaine-sniffing Madame Nell. Investigate, certainly, but technically speaking having hundreds of pictures of naked children is not a crime.The number of pictures doesn't really matter until it crosses that nebulous line into child pornography.Plot Spoiler Warning: The following contains important plot details of the entire film. Under the current law they probably wouldn't even prosecute him. They might prosecute him for possession, but the photographers for child pornography? Doubt it. I guess the context that the image was found is counts as well. If the FBI raided someone's computer and found a few hundred pictures of babies in bathtubs you'd better believe they'd try to nail him for child pornography. Quote:Originally posted by Crossed Reality:quote:Originally posted by CUclimber:quote: Is a picture of a baby in a bathtub child pornography? No. But the controversy around the movie at the time depended on what part of the country it was showing and probably helped the overall gross.But perverts probably get off on kids pictures in Sears or KMart ads if they can't find something else. Supposedly it showed what life was really like in a New orleans brothel (my only other example would be the whorehouse scene in Easy Rider). They went after her as well.I remember the full frontal nudity in PB was in the context of a photographer (a Carradine brother?) who photographed all the whores and developed a weird relationship with the young shields character and her mother. I believe they ended up getting the charges dropped.There was another case where a photographer whose milieau was photographing her and friends children in nude artistic poses. I remember some local DA's tried to prosecute the parents and I believe some folks had thier kids taken away by social services. There have been a number of cases in the last few years where photo processing employees have spotted nude children in photos and reported them.
Quote: Is a picture of a baby in a bathtub child pornography? No.
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