brooke shields playboy magazine photos 1975

Prince, Schorr tells me, has never met Shields. “I found it really disturbing, but my impression always was that Richard made the piece because it was disturbing … It tells you everything about what we fear and desire.”

“I always thought that it was a perverse picture,” says Schorr, who has since made a documentary about Prince, and befriended Shields when she photographed the actor/model last year for Interview magazine. When artist Collier Schorr sublet Prince’s studio in the 1980s, the photograph was hanging in the hallway. She has, in Prince’s description, “a body with two different sexes, maybe more, and a head that looks like it’s got a different birthday.” It shows a 10-year-old Shields, oiled and glistening, naked and made-up, posing in a marble bathtub with a seductive danger that belies her years. The Richard Prince photograph of Brooke Shields that Tate Modern recently withdrew from the exhibition Pop Life, after Scotland Yard suggested it might break obscenity laws, travelled across the Atlantic carrying a long history of controversy. The photographs did not appear in Playboy, but they were shown in a related publication called Sugar ‘n’ Spice: It provided a recounting of a controversy involving photographs captured of a then-ten-year-old Brooke Shields in 1975 (not 1976). In 2009, the Guardian published a story about the image and its photographer Garry Gross.

No comment, sources, or citations were provided, and a watermark on the image suggested that it originated elsewhere earlier. In 1976 Playboy published nude photos of Brooke Shields, who was just TEN YEARS OLD at the time! The image featured a heavily made-up small girl who looked quite a lot like Shields and an inserted image of Playboy founder Hugh Hefner covering her presumably naked body, with text that read: Advertisements In March 2019, the following meme appeared (archived here), containing a claim that Brooke Shields had been photographed suggestively for Playboy magazine when she was just ten years old:

Brooke shields playboy magazine photos 1975