“A Photographer’s Guide to Section 2257″ provides to the photographers a clear, readable and complete analysis of §2257 (USA), its statutes, and the regulations.

In the USA, the “Section 2257 law” dates from 1995. In recent months photographers have realized that it applies to photographers of the nude, to fashion photographers, to glamour photographers – to explicit nudity or subjects of eroticism or sexuality.

Effective March 18, 2009, Section 2257 expands via a new statute, §2257A, to encompass simulated activity and the entirely new “lascivious exhibition of genitals or the pubic area.”

“A Photographer’s Guide to Section 2257″ provides analysis of §2257, its statutes, and the regulations.

Stephen Haynes - A Photographers' Guide to Section 2257

Topics covered include :

1. What photographic subjects are covered and why,
2. What the law requires,
3. What records must be kept, and how,
4. What labels must be placed on photographs, how and when,
5. How photographers may expect to be inspected by federal authorities,
6. What the “Safe Harbor” certification is and how it may be acquired.

Includes an Appendix containing the full set of regulations implementing §2257 effective March 18.

Available at Lulu.com. More info here.

Stephen Haynes is a photographer and resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota. One of Univers d’Artistes‘ contributing editors, he is a highly respected artistic female nude photographer. He holds a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School and is now retired from legal practice.

Stephen Haynes blog: http://magicflutenudes.blogspot.com/

Cheers,

Vernon Trent

Model Lie

a leap forward
the universe
learned to expand
in time
and in space
humans
superior cynics
their world
is fashioned
they lose
sight of the way
no wonder
they don’t understand
the art
as expression
I will
still capture
my imaginations
and put them
in a pattern
so grand
and complex
forming
a world
sensitive
open
and strong…

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conceptual shot with Model Lie.
Hasselblad 501CM, Planar 80mm/2.8
Fomapan 200
MACO Ecoprint (Agfa Neutol) 1:12@20°c
Blue toned print 30×30 cm

Model Lie

lived to love
retaining your magic
in my memory
your name’s beauty
in my hopeless eyes
time
stay forever
whiteness
from empty spaces
discovering
the world
on the ground
how contemptuously
laughted
the beauty at time
but unfortunately
the time
ruins also beauty…

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conceptual shot with Model Lie.
Multiple exposures
Hasselblad 501CM, Planar 80mm/2.8
Fomapan 200
MACO Ecoprint (Agfa Neutol) 1:12@20°c