![Balthus Etude pour](https://snadgy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Balthus-Etude-pour-Nu-de-profil.jpg)
Etude pour “Nu de profil”, 1972
Gagosian Gallery
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (1955)
Described shortly after its publication as “sheer unrestrained pornography,” the tale of Humbert Humbert’s abduction of his adopted child Dolores Haze (a.k.a. “Lolita”) and their sordid road trip across the United States is still considered one of the greatest literary masterpieces in English. In the recent Gagosian Gallery exhibition, “The Last Studies,” 155 polaroids taken by Balthus of his last model Anna raised similarly thorny questions of pornography, pedophilia, and the cultural obsession with prepubescent girls as sexual objects.
![Richard Hamilton Motel I, 1979 Alan Cristea Gallery](https://snadgy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Richard-Hamilton-motel-1.jpg)
Motel I, 1979
Alan Cristea Gallery
![Sally Mann Untitled, At Twelve Series (Ianna and her Doom), 1983 Jackson Fine Art](https://snadgy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/sally-mann-Untitled-At-Twelve-Series-Ianna-and-her-Doom1.jpg)
Untitled, At Twelve Series (Ianna and her Doom), 1983
Jackson Fine Art
![Arnold Odermatt Stansstad, 1969 CARDI GALLERY](https://snadgy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Arnold-Odermatt-stansstad.jpg)
Stansstad, 1969
CARDI GALLERY
![Juergen Teller Paradis VII, 2009 Christine König Galerie](https://snadgy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Juergen-Teller-paradise-vii.jpg)
Paradis VII, 2009
Christine König Galerie
![Emi Anrakuji Untitled 10147 (from O Mapa series), 2013 Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery](https://snadgy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Emi-Anrakuji-untitled.jpg)
Untitled 10147 (from O Mapa series), 2013
Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery