This was all translated & explained in the paper.
In previous issue of this same newspaper I mentioned, was article about Finnish female artist who did installation with images she found online from easy and assumedly legal sources. No hardcore stuff, but stuff she considered to be sexualization of children and wrong. Showing how society has become accepting towards things like this. Which it hasn't. And therefore, on opening night, one of the guests called police and her piece of art never made it to please the actual artlovers. She got recently sentence for distributing kiddy porn. Some professionals said that like cup/vase can't be removed from its current artform back to simply clay, also those images part of social commentary&art can't return back to their original raw form. And she should not be sentenced based on what pictures were, but looked at what they have become. I strongly dislike this particular professor and his academic queer studies, but I like that idea. I have few ideas for "performance art" what can be done on streets. With baseball bat and installing it temporarily to/through living canvas.
Anyways, seriously, while pretty much nobody saw the images, so it's hard to really credibly tell what they were and what they were not, but I could assume new and old nudist images, printed out art of world wide famous photographers etc. Here in Finland, even Sally Mann exhibition resulted 9 crime reports to police. I find it quite brutal, that high profile art museum displayed worldwide celebrated high-art what is priced about 20000$ per original, and 9 people get the idea that this must be criminal activity and files report to police... I guess that's the call for above mentioned performance art to happen.
I should probably mention this is "recommended artbooks" topic, since it ain't porn, basically just opposite. But now on-topic: I just managed to score copy of PAKKALA: "Kuvia Lasten Maailmasta" ("photos of world of children") from 1931. Finnish publisher Gummerus. Found it by accident in antique book store here in Lahti.
Text starts: "adult, who stops for a while for childrens beach, to admire wild competition of the little ones, full of lively and beautiful pictures, feels some kind of sorrow in mind, despite bright voices of children ring in his ears with cute happiness. Feels like in front of our eys would be piece of forgotten paradice, where one has once lived, but what he can never get back anymore. Being kicked out from paradice didn't happen just once. It's story is eternal. Every human can withness it in their lives. Abandoning the paradice and touch on fruit of tree of knowledge happens so slowly, during the years, during turbulent years of youth, during mystical years, that one doesn't notice it until compared his life as adult to life of children. Memories and emotions creep to your consciousness, so blurred and fragile, so strange and alien, that one has to stop think, are these really memories, or maybe recollections of lost times of happines, or something heard or read , what imagination has transformed and tricks you to think it was you. Feels like in this childrens beach, at one view you can withness core of everything what is unique for world of children and what separates it from us. Air feels vibrating of joy and happiness of living. Air, water, sun and warm sand joins into joy of children, absorbing their cute naked bodies. Over everything floats the spirit of sweet ignorance and innosence."
And so on. But if you would simply cut out the art photos presented here, and paste it in wall of museum together with model images of adult women, you'd be probably experiencing the very same treatment as woman artist mentioned above. To explain, it is really nearly 80 years old book of artistic study, I guess would be just too hard to understand for perverse minds of today. And perhaps not even being lesbian feminist can save you from the sentence.
