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But one part of the archive, which was purchased from the Larry Rivers Foundation for an undisclosed price, includes films and videos of his two adolescent daughters, naked or topless, being interviewed by their father about their developing breasts.
One daughter, who said she was pressured to participate, beginning when she was 11, is demanding that the material be removed from the archive and returned to her and her sister.
“I kind of think that a lot of people would be very uptight, or at least a little bit concerned, wondering whether they have in their archives child pornography,” said the daughter, Emma Tamburlini, now 43.
Ms. Tamburlini said the filming contributed to her becoming anorexic at 16. “It wrecked a lot of my life actually,” she said.
Her older sister, Gwynne Rivers, declined comment.
N.Y.U. has agreed to discuss the matter and has already, at the urging of the foundation, pledged to keep the material off limits during the daughters’ lifetimes. Two years ago Ms. Tamburlini asked the foundation to destroy the tapes, but it declined.
The Rivers Foundation’s director, David Joel, said that he sympathized with Ms. Tamburlini but that he could not agree to destroy the tapes.
“I can’t be the person who says this stays and this goes,” he said. “My job is to protect the material.”
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( My Commentary )
Sorry for my tone and salty language. But one of my biggest pet peeves are pretentious assholes who do something that any idiot can do (like peeing in a bucket and dropping a crucifix inside or chaining a dog to a wall and letting it starve to death) and than have the gall to call themselves "brilliant artists". No. REAL artists possess creativity and talent and actually work at their craft. Any creep with a video camera can do what Larry Rivers did. And I don't think I even need to mention the fact that, if some Joe Nobody had exploited little girls like this and filmed his crimes, he would be in prison for molestation and child porn right now. ESPECIALLY if the children were still traumatized about it after they grew up.
These videos don't serve any artistic value nor do they fall into any moral gray areas (like, say, pictures of happy kids in a bathtub or at a nudist colony would). These videos are kiddie porn, plain and simple. And shame on NYU for putting two innocent women through hell in order to defend some perverted, evil man and his crappy "art"!
But one part of the archive, which was purchased from the Larry Rivers Foundation for an undisclosed price, includes films and videos of his two adolescent daughters, naked or topless, being interviewed by their father about their developing breasts.
One daughter, who said she was pressured to participate, beginning when she was 11, is demanding that the material be removed from the archive and returned to her and her sister.
“I kind of think that a lot of people would be very uptight, or at least a little bit concerned, wondering whether they have in their archives child pornography,” said the daughter, Emma Tamburlini, now 43.
Ms. Tamburlini said the filming contributed to her becoming anorexic at 16. “It wrecked a lot of my life actually,” she said.
Her older sister, Gwynne Rivers, declined comment.
N.Y.U. has agreed to discuss the matter and has already, at the urging of the foundation, pledged to keep the material off limits during the daughters’ lifetimes. Two years ago Ms. Tamburlini asked the foundation to destroy the tapes, but it declined.
The Rivers Foundation’s director, David Joel, said that he sympathized with Ms. Tamburlini but that he could not agree to destroy the tapes.
“I can’t be the person who says this stays and this goes,” he said. “My job is to protect the material.”
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( My Commentary )
Sorry for my tone and salty language. But one of my biggest pet peeves are pretentious assholes who do something that any idiot can do (like peeing in a bucket and dropping a crucifix inside or chaining a dog to a wall and letting it starve to death) and than have the gall to call themselves "brilliant artists". No. REAL artists possess creativity and talent and actually work at their craft. Any creep with a video camera can do what Larry Rivers did. And I don't think I even need to mention the fact that, if some Joe Nobody had exploited little girls like this and filmed his crimes, he would be in prison for molestation and child porn right now. ESPECIALLY if the children were still traumatized about it after they grew up.
These videos don't serve any artistic value nor do they fall into any moral gray areas (like, say, pictures of happy kids in a bathtub or at a nudist colony would). These videos are kiddie porn, plain and simple. And shame on NYU for putting two innocent women through hell in order to defend some perverted, evil man and his crappy "art"!
