Source Photographic Review - Back Issue Archive - Issue 53 Winter 2007 - Feature Image Page - Vanessa Beecroft and the European president of Louis Vuitton, Jean Marc Gallot standing in front of a photograph from the Alphabet Series VBLV which shows the Louis Vuitton Logo arranged in female models. Since this photograph was taken the series has been challenged as infringing the copyright of a Dutch graphic designer Anthon Beeke and withdrawn from circulation. Photo: Peer Grimm dpa/lbn. from Why Art Photography? Art Photography is both desired and an object of hostility. Lucy Soutter asks where this ambivalence comes from and why we might value the photographs we see in galleries.

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Source Photographic Review - Back Issue Archive - Issue 53 Winter 2007 - Feature Image Page - Vanessa Beecroft and the European president of Louis Vuitton, Jean Marc Gallot standing in front of a photograph from the Alphabet Series VBLV which shows the Louis Vuitton Logo arranged in female models. Since this photograph was taken the series has been challenged as infringing the copyright of a Dutch graphic designer Anthon Beeke and withdrawn from circulation. Photo: Peer Grimm dpa/lbn. from Why Art Photography? Art Photography is both desired and an object of hostility. Lucy Soutter asks where this ambivalence comes from and why we might value the photographs we see in galleries. - Review by Lucy Soutter.

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Vanessa Beecroft and the European president of Louis Vuitton, Jean Marc Gallot standing in front of a photograph from the Alphabet Series VBLV which shows the Louis Vuitton Logo arranged in female models. Since this photograph was taken the series has been challenged as infringing the copyright of a Dutch graphic designer Anthon Beeke and withdrawn from circulation. Photo: Peer Grimm dpa/lbn.

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